Funny and believable but maybe a stretch with how they don't have an irish accent and e.g Scotland has tons of gingers too. I do feel like it's some form of stereotyping and (in the spirit of this post, kinda /s) another of her bad ways of representing a minority (overwhelmingly white cishet characters)
The main reason the Weasleys are gingers is so JK Rowling can tell us that the Irish are poor and breed like rabbits.
Funny and believable but maybe a stretch with how they don't have an irish accent and e.g Scotland has tons of gingers too. I do feel like it's some form of stereotyping and (in the spirit of this post, kinda /s) another of her bad ways of representing a minority (overwhelmingly white cishet characters)