Redemption (was RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: Why Draco Malfoy Isn't Evil ... )

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14917

Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> Margaret Dean wrote:
> 
> > Not necessarily rich, but someone who traditionally doesn't have to
> > work for a living because they get their income some other way:
> > either Land or Investments, to quote Lady Bracknell.
> 
> *ahem* That IS rich. At least from where I sit. Independently wealthy.
> Able to pursue avocations. Etc. I presume when you say rich, you mean
> filthy rich, lighting cigarettes with $100 bills and the like?

Actually I meant common-or-garden rich.  It's entirely possible
(at least at some times/places) to have an independent =income=
that doesn't make you =wealthy.=  Inherited money, say, invested
in the Funds, but not actually providing more than a modest
yearly income.  Or even a wretched yearly income, but it =is= an
income, you can get by, and by golly you have your Family Pride
and none of the Family has =ever= had to go into *shudder* TRADE.

After all, we =are= talking about English wizards.


--Margaret Dean, who has to get this sort of thing from books...
  <margdean at erols.com>