No matter how poor the Weasleys were, no matter how much Ron was mocked by Draco, his family still had one advantage—lots of children.
This was something other pure-blood families could not hope to match. How many once-illustrious families had come to an end because they left no heirs?
Even if she borrowed Georgiana's brain, she would never have imagined that one day she would compare Molly with Josephine.
Before Hermione returned to work at the Ministry of Magic, Molly had told her to have children first and worry about the rest later. It was undoubtedly a wise choice, though Hermione had found Molly utterly unreasonable at the time.
Working while being pregnant and giving birth was by no means easy, especially when Hermione still had to deal with those people at the Ministry of Magic.
Molly was a housewife whose figure had gone out of shape, someone many career women—even highborn ladies like Narcissa—would mock. Yet she truly was a strong "maternal role model."
That was Albus's aesthetic. She hoped Pomona would learn more from Molly and become a "strong mother."
Once a woman became pregnant, she basically lost the traits that attracted men—such as a slender waist and ankles free of swelling.
Strangely enough, Georgiana had never expected Bonaparte to remain faithful while a woman was pregnant. Perhaps because he had already reversed his position in his marriage to Josephine, public opinion generally stood on his side. No matter how many mistresses he had, it was considered normal.
Josephine, meanwhile, pragmatically believed that pregnancy would hold their marriage together, because Napoleon desperately needed an heir. The original heir, Eugene, had lost his inheritance rights because of Josephine's scandals.
She should not have treated everything that had happened by the canal as the establishment of a relationship. After all,