Why are there financially poor magical people in the first place?

[ra_1013]

No: HPFGUIDX 42709

--- ksnidget wrote:
> One of the rules (and I think she talks about it in an interview)
> is that stuff you conjure up from nothing doesn't last.  At some
> point yeah, you make your life more comfortable, but it probably
> gets embarassing when the Armani suit you are wearing keeps
> dissappearing every 3 hours or so <evil grin>  "Oops could
> you all please turn your back until I conjure a new suit and put
> it on.  Thanks ever so much...."
> 
> I do think they can use magic to make life a lot more comfortable
> than they would being poor and non-magical, but many of the
> necessities of life, clothing, housing, books, school supplies,
> are all things that need to be purchased.

And also, perhaps its a matter of skill or specialization as well. 
For example, it's theoretically possible for me to make my own
clothing, as I have just as much access to cloth, thread, and needles
as a seamstress.  But I really wouldn't want to be seen in public with
any clothes that *I* might make.  I'll just buy them, thanks. ;)

As we saw with Ron's severing charm to remove the lace from his dress
robes in GOF, a poorly-done spell really doesn't look all that great.
 So wizards without any skill at clothing-making spells would result
in as ugly of clothing as I would make with my needle and thread. 
This would presumably hold true for other areas of specialization,
such as wand making, furnishings, and magical components.

I still firmly believe, BTW, that there is a school supply of
emergency sleeping bags which Dumbledore summoned from storage, not
conjured out of nowhere. :)



Andrea