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| Oct 31, 2018 at 15:37 | comment | added | Joshua | Well, they shouldn't face the consequences of being poor. That much active magic should permit transfiguring everything they need but food and magic items. | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 19:55 | comment | added | ʀᴇᴅ_ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ226 | @TBear I don't think Percy was making more than Arthur at that point of time. But I do get the point you are trying to make and I believe it is valid. I think Percy was climbing the ranks really quickly and he would have been earning more than Arthur in a few years, which led him to make the comment on their financial state during the fight between the two of them. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | BlackThorn | I seem to remember Percy accusing his father of having no ambition, otherwise he could have progressed through the ranks in the Ministry and actually earned a decent living. I think that suggests that Arthur was earning even less than Percy after Percy was only there a short time. That doesn't exactly say how much they earn, but I think it does suggest how modest their income was. | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 7:48 | comment | added | ʀᴇᴅ_ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ226 | @Angelo.Hannes Actually the tent belonged to Perkins, Arthur Weasley's colleague at the Ministry. As Arthur says in GoF, "Doesn't camp much anymore, poor fellow, he's got lumbago." Even in DH, Ron, Hermione and Harry use the same tent, since Perkins' lumbago has got so bad. | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 7:38 | comment | added | Angelo.Hannes | @DarrelHoffman The tent we only know from GoF. Maybe they spent some of their lottery win, to purchase this tent for their trip to Egypt. And they simply reused it for the world cup? | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 7:29 | comment | added | ʀᴇᴅ_ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ226 | @CreationEdge Well the Gaunts (Voldemort's family) were properly poor. They were properly pure-blood as well. Yes, they were originally rich. But in HBP we see that the wealth has been squandered over generations and when it came to Marvolo Gaunt and his children, they were living in pretty poor conditions. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 22:56 | comment | added | user31178 | @Shadur Do we know of any proper pureblood families with as many kids as the Weasleys? | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 22:22 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | Also bear in mind who called them poor - Draco clearly believed (at the time) that proper pureblood families have major wealth to back up the purity of their lineage. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 20:18 | comment | added | Mirek Długosz | As for trip to Egypt, that question was asked not long ago and some answers try to provide more psychological explanation of that decision. Other than that, Weasleys are typical media poor family - they are said to be poor, other people treat them as poor but they don't actually face consequences that poor people do in real world. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 20:06 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | A foreign trip for a family of wizards might not be as expensive as you'd imagine. The biggest expense for normal people travelling to a place like Egypt is just getting there. With any number of cheap/free modes of magical transport available to them, that's not even an issue. Then you've got lodging - but we know they already have a bigger-on-the-inside tent they can just set up anywhere. So really, it's just a matter of food, which is actually considerably cheaper there (relative to an average British income). A trip to Egypt might end up being cheaper for them than staying home... | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Just to note (as in one of the comments above) that Molly’s cooking skills and the amount of food she makes doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how much money they have. You can increase the amount of food by magic if you have just some, so food needn't be (much) more expensive for nine over the summers than for two (or three in Harry's first year) the rest of the year. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:25 | history | answered | ʀᴇᴅ_ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ226 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |