[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Why were the Weasleys poor?

[Wolfie!]

> I think you hit on the answer:  LARGE family!  Plus it doesn't sound 
> like the department Papa Weasley worked in was high priority so 
> maybe it wasn't a high-paying job.  7 kids to outfit and
> for school for 7 years!  For at least 3 of the years we read about 
> they had 
> FIVE kids in school (probably more when Bill & Charlie were in 
> school).  The one piece of canon I can think of is in 
> HBP when Harry & Ron get new potions books and it was something like 
> 9 or 11 Galleons FOR ONE BOOK!  No wonder they were broke!

Yeah but what does a wizarding family pay out in bills?
They don't use electricity or gas or fuel... so unless water
and council rates are high, that only leaves a food bill.

Seven kids wouldn't be too hard to raise without those extras
which we pay for.

Text books are always expensive too.
I bought one for chinese medicine as I did a class in that and the
thing was about $200 aussie [perhaps $170US?]

Wolfie!