Well, I think it's important to separate out what you'd want to do for a friend in a hard place -- which she is, no doubt, regardless, and what you'd do for your own child.
Because if it did turn out not to be yours, you'd still have a friend who needs your help. And helping her find a new job is certainly something you can do.
So I wouldn't think of it so much as either giving all to your heir or leaving off altogether, and more about what Terrie is going to need help with regardless of whether the baby is yours, and then what else you might do if it is.
I hadn't thought about the risk at St Mungo's, though -- does it really say the name like that? I can't say I've ever known anyone to have it done before. Poppy might know -- I know, I know, you'd have to run the gauntlet on that one. Perhaps... might Tonks have some friends who might know how it works?
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Date: 2011-07-11 04:59 pm (UTC)Because if it did turn out not to be yours, you'd still have a friend who needs your help. And helping her find a new job is certainly something you can do.
So I wouldn't think of it so much as either giving all to your heir or leaving off altogether, and more about what Terrie is going to need help with regardless of whether the baby is yours, and then what else you might do if it is.
I hadn't thought about the risk at St Mungo's, though -- does it really say the name like that? I can't say I've ever known anyone to have it done before. Poppy might know -- I know, I know, you'd have to run the gauntlet on that one. Perhaps... might Tonks have some friends who might know how it works?