Re: Cho Chang not Ginny


"Louis Epstein" <le@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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BubblyBabs <ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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: "Louis Epstein" <le@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> BubblyBabs <ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> : <SNIP>
:> :> :> And what of kings, always offering their daughters to the first
hero
:> :> :> who saves them. Killing a dragon does not a great husband make.
:> :> : No, but it gets the daughter off his hands. Daughters in a
:> patriarchal
:> :> : society are considered a liability, fit only for bargaining them
off
:> :> : to someone for political advantage.
:> :> : Sorry about that, women's lib folks, but that is the way things
WERE.
:> :>
:> :> More practically,these kings are usually shown as being without
sons,
:> :> and a dragonslayer would presumably make a good successor.But
:> legitimacy
:> :> as a successor requires marrying into the old dynasty.
:> :
:> : No sons probably due to inbreeding... Marrying the daughter off to a
:> hero
:> : would probably guarantee he was not related and would introduce new
:> genes
:> : into the pool...
:> : Babs
:>
:> Does inbreeding reduce fertility?
:
: I remember reading that after a while the Egyptian royalty had trouble
: siring daughters and not sons due to inbreeding...
: Babs

For religious reasons,brothers were obliged to marry sisters.
Cleopatra married at least two brothers in succession,so the
dynasty was not running short of them despite murders...


Hmmm, good point... I wonder where I read that now...
Babs


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