I posted this to my AO3 account, as is. But as I said in my ending note, not really much of a “story” maybe a plot at best. So if someone wants to take it, in whole or in part, and flesh it out as their own, feel free.
So there’s another prophecy that Dumbledore was privy to that nobody else knows about speaking of the chosen one and the daughter of the seventh child, a seventh child herself bringing about the dawn of the new age of magic.<br />
Dumbledore is so magically xenophobic that he is certain this seventh child cannot come from outside of the magical world. So he starts searching. Arthur Weasley is the only person he knows who is a seventh child. Families simply don’t get that big. So that has to be the father in the prophecy. He’s recently married Molly Prewett, the vivacious, attractive head girl and quidditch captain to Arthur’s head boy from Gryffindor. This might take some thought.
Dumbledore gets to know the young, just graduated couple. He asks them about kids and their plans. Arthur has just taken an entry level position in the ministry, it doesn’t pay much but there are prospects. Molly has several offers to play professional quidditch and they don’t plan to start a family anytime soon, not until they have their financial house in order.
This won’t do at all.
Via compulsions and potions, Dumbledore gets the Weasley family started and soon Molly is pregnant with a boy destroying her quidditch prospects.
The couple changes their life plans in light of this new development, and decide that Arthur will advance his position as far and as fast as he can and Molly will stay home and raise their child. As far as more children go, they are only going to have 2-3 they’d both like a girl, but if after 3 there is no girl then there will be no more. If they have a girl before then, then that will be all. It’s too hard for the family and will be too hard on Molly to carry so many. Arthur grew up in a huge family and doesn’t ever want to put his kids through the hardships.
Dumbledore is gleaning information in the background like a spider… that won’t do at all.
More compulsions. Potions. And Dumbledore starts digging through his alchemical tomes. Alchemy is all but dead in the isles due completely to Dumbles. He doesn’t want the competition and also doesn’t want what he’s capable of doing to be widely known.
It is alchemically possible to alter the gender of a fetus in the womb. The child will never totally fit in with their siblings because deep down something is wrong, but as far as Dumbles is concerned, it doesn’t matter for the greater good. It is very health costly to the mother, but so long as she survives to bear to the seventh, Dumbles doesn’t especially care.
He compels the Weasley couple to have children until they have a daughter. No matter what.
The first hiccup occurs early on in the 3rd pregnancy. It’s a girl. The Weasley’s are overjoyed…but at the time of birth they are disappointed when the diagnostics are wrong and they welcome Percival…was planning on Pricilla into the family.
The 4th pregnancy was twin boys but otherwise healthy.
5th pregnancy? Another girl, but the prospective parents don’t get their hopes up this time and wait until birth. They hope for a Rhonda. They get a Ronald.
6th pregnancy and prophesied daughter? A BOY! WHAT? This can’t be? Another alchemical draft for the mother and obliviations for the witnesses… and the expected Gethin was born Ginerva and the prophesied pawn is born.
By this time Molly’s body is showing the ravages of so many pregnancies inside of a decade and her once tall, lean, sleek chasers body has been replaced with that of a dumpy housewife.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in England, about 6 months before young Ronald is born a couple by the name of Granger welcome a precious daughter into the world. Over the course of the previous 10 years they have endured the heartache of 2 miscarriages (actually 6, but two were sets of twins before Emma even knew she was pregnant) so will hold their daughter Hermione most dear. Emma is the youngest of 7 children and always dreamed of having a large family herself. But if fate’s plan was to only grant her one she would accept it.
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17 years later this entire scheme is unraveled after a splinching getting away from the ministry during the horcrux hunt. In all their years of friendship, Hermione realizes she’d never actually been exposed to Ronald’s blood and it wasn’t normal. With the limited facilities she had at her disposal in a tent it took her the better part of 2 weeks to figure out the discrepancies were alchemical in nature and another month of working on it in her spare time to figure out what it was doing.
It wasn’t until reaching shell cottage and having another Weasley (Bill) to test blood from and Fleur to help who was actually taught Alchemy at Beauxbatons that Hermione was able to synthesize a counter agent. Meanwhile Bill was able to quietly get blood samples from all of his siblings, and only Percy and Ginny showed the same discrepancies. Their mother’s blood was way off as well, but differently.
After administering the counter agent to Ronald…they now stood face to face with Rhonda, who for the first time in his (her?) life, wasn’t compulsively hungry…
Hermione also had an inkling as to why Ron might have always been so jealous of other girls getting close to Harry even if he (she?). Ugh… this was going to be so confusing until it is all straightened out… even if Ron didn’t know why he was jealous.
Percy and Ginny weren’t helped until after the end of the final battle but suffice it to say the Weasley’s suddenly had 2 daughters and 5 sons. Percy’s slight build and Ginny’s tomboyishness made much more sense in retrospect.
After getting the entire tale from it, they happily burned Dumbledore’s portrait. Unfortunately there was little more justice they could exact from the man. There was also little that could be done to correct Molly’s health issues.
After an awkward adjustment, Harry found himself with two girlfriends, Hermione, who he had finally confessed his feelings for after Ron left them in the tent and Rhonda Weasley.
Ginny, now Gethin, went on to a professional quidditch career, and married Luna Lovegood.
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