Entire generations? And have all of those generations been as large as yours? The Weasley family is a statistical anomaly. Maybe seven is lucky for you.

Ginny, what you must understand about Russians--and I mean the traditional Russians, the ones like my family--is that we are considered very pessimistic by those who don't appreciate the benefits of expecting disappointment from life. But when bad things happen, we think of those as omens of good luck, because once your luck is bad, how can it do anything but improve?