[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Fred and Geaorge couldn't share?

[Angela Pelnar]

No: HPFGUIDX 22760


--- Sofie Campbell <sofie_elisabeth at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> Monika wrote:
> 
> >Why not buy one set for them all - or perhaps one
> set for the 
> > boys and another one for Ginny, as they didn't
> know which house 
> she'd end up in? 
> > And certainly, Fred and George could have shared
> their books, 
> because they most probably were to do their homework
> together anyway! 
> 
> I agree here totally and another thing that has
> bugged me as I 
> recently re-read all four books, why don't the
> Weasley children pass 
> books on to each other? I mean if all of them went
> to Hogwarts surely 
> they all could have used the same books. The school
> supplies list 
> tells them they need new books each year. Couldn't
> Ginny have had 
> Ron's books from the year before? Even if Bill's and
> Charlie's school 
> books had long since disintergrated why can't Ron
> have Percy's or the 
> twins' books from the previous years? They seem to
> pass everything 
> else down the family, why not new books? Unless the
> text books chnage 
> every year but from what we saw of Ginny's list they
> don't seem to. 
> Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
> 
> Love Sofie xxx
> 
> 
> 
> 

I always thought that many of the books could be used
for more than one year.  Some books, such as the
Standard Book of Spells, change as a student advances
through grades, but other books, such as One Thousand
and One Magical Herbs and Fungi, could be used
throughout a student's magical education.  This is how
many of the textbooks utilized by my university
operate.  This would also explain why the Weasly
children do not share many books - because they are
still using them.


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