Christmas Dinner with Weasleys

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7218

> -- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski 
<editor at t...> wrote:
> 
> > Um, not to spoil the mood, but have the Weasleys gotten a bit 
more
> > financially solvent? How can they afford such a sumptious 
spread as
> > you plan?

(SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING)

If you read the fic, you'll see that they have indeed gotten more 
financially solvent.  :)  The fictional dinner in "Trouble in Paradise 
01-Christmas With The Weasleys" by AngieJ takes place 13 
years after the events in GoF.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> Are the wizard folk able to magic up raw ingredients? Like 
white 
> sauce dribbling out of the wand (which always seems 
Freudian to me). 

LOL!  It wasn't Freudian to me until you pointed *that* out... 
Thanks so much for the laugh Rita... I'm in my classroom on 
lunch break and sorely needed it. 

> If all the young-uns got jobs to support themselves, the 
Weasleys 
> would be more financially solvent than with five or even four 
> dependent children. If Fred and George's joke shop is a big 
success, 
> the family could be rolling in money.

Exactly.  Even in the canon, you see hints of future success for all 
the children.  Bill's climbing the corporate ladder at Gringotts' 
Egypt branch, Charlie's working with dragons (which even if it 
doesn't pay much, *must* come with a tidy life insurance plan), 
and Percy wants to be powerful, period.  The twins have the joke 
shop Rita mentioned in the works, already "test marketing" 
products on hapless souls like Neville.  Ron and Ginny seem to 
be determined as well.

I predict that if Arthur survives the Second Voldemort War, he'll no 
longer be a ministry worker at the Muggle Artifacts office.  I also 
know from my own Muggle history that war changes the social, 
economic, and psychological fabric of a society... and that 
society's company.

Rest assured, the Weasleys *will* eat well in 2008.  I think they 
deserve it, don't you?

Ebony