I'm sure there will be another Potter at Hogwarts, They have plenty of time, and they both want it, Pansy just needs a little more time.

I think that the clocks really aren't just the maternal kinds in this case. It's more the fact that this is the way that life rolls. It moves, constantly. People change - jobs, lives, marriages, have children, move, grow older. The stretch marks, saggy boobs and hemmorhoids - well, they're par for the course when you have children (who doesn't turn out like that? If they don't, I tend to think they're freaks of nature!), but that stuff also can happen just with aging.

It's very easy to want to keep things just the way they are. Have life revolve around you and you personally like a spoiled little child. Have a career and a marriage and a nice house and car and let nothing disturb that because you don't see adults stamping their feet and throwing temper tantrums - no, that's too infantile. It's much easier to rationalize and argue the points when you're an adult (grown-up temper tantrums). But having a child takes away every selfish need and want one could ever posess, and that's too damn hard for a lot of people to handle. It takes a VERY strong person to be a parent. To be able to say, "I can't have x,y,or z because I need that money to let my child do this. I need that time so that my child will be able to do that." All of a sudden it's not about what YOU want (In Pansy's case, the Jimmy Choo shoes), it's balancing it out with 'I need to redo Sam's room because he's ten and not into race cars anymore.' And that's sacrifice. That's growing, that's evolving as a person, to realize that there's needs that need met beyond your own want.

Pansy's realizing that. Now, let's see if she's ready to handle it.

I thoroughly enjoyed that.  It was nice to see 'the other side' (the non-baby not sure if I want to side).  It still amazes me that as someone married and in her mid-40's I still get the "oh, so you DON'T have children?".

Very nicely done and I think the way it was written worked well.