[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin - neatly

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 16142

Yes, you can't magic yourself rich.  And an unspoken rule in all stories 
about magic - magic must cost something - maybe not money, but energy or 
time, or itself, i.e. you don't have unlimited power.  You have to have 
priorities. Otherwise there's no story.


>
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> > >  I just reread Prizoner from Azkaban and noticed those little
>hints
> > > Rowling puts in to Lupins personality - his battered case is hold
> > > together with strings that he has knotted Neatly...
> >
> > How come Lupin can't magic himself up some decent clothes and a good
> > piece of luggage?
>lea macleod wrote:
>He doesnt have decent stuff because hes so poor - he must have had
>real trouble getting a job because nobody wants to employ a werewolf.
>
>And I think you cant just magic yourself rich.
>
>If you could, thered be no need for Gringotts and the shops in Diagon
>alley and the books would only be half the fun... which tends to be a
>general reason for a lot of unexplainable things in the books...
>

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