Malfoy Money---A Thought

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 47511

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Laura" <metslvr19 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I'm also not sure how Voldemort could promise anyone money for 
> anything, all the DEs seem to do is kill and torture and torment 
> ...none of that gets you any money.

For the original question, I believe that the Malfoys are plenty rich 
and 'the Good Old Days' to which they want to return was not a matter 
of having even more money, but of having people jump when they said 
'Frog' *without* having to pay the people to do so ... I imagine that 
in the Good Old Days, people obeyed the nearest Malfoy simply out of 
fear of being tortured and killed...

But I am sure that money was one of the many different things that 
attracted different people to join Voldemort. I can think of several 
ways that Death Eating could get a person money. One simple enough 
for even Crabbe and Goyle to understand: when you AK a rich person 
and hiser family, LOOT the house before burning it. Only slightly 
more complicated: send notes (signed by the Dark Mark) threatening to 
kill the recipient and family unless heesh pays up. After a few such 
notes were followed by the Dark Mark-ed death of the recipient who 
didn't pay up and no one catching the murderers, people would take 
those notes seriously.

Use powerful (Dark?) magic provided by Voldemort to break into (and 
out of!) Gringott's vaults, to rob them, like Quirrel did... 
Gringotts would have an interest in hushing it up, maybe even an 
interest in *paying* Voldemort not to rob them...   

Get a job, and then a raise and a promotion, either by favoritism 
from a DE boss to a DE applicant/subordinate, or by arranging for an 
anonymous Dark Mark letter to threaten the boss unless you get taken 
care of, or by someone Imperius'ing the boss ... If some employers, 
such as the Ministry, have some kind of civil-service-like exam, DEs 
already employed with access to the test results could change them, 
either by magic or the normal way...

Use either Imperius or threats to get one rich person to marry you, 
and another to sell you hiser property at a very cheap price... 

If you owned, for example, a broomstick factory, you could use DEs 
and the Dark Mark to destroy competing broomstick factories. Then 
you could raise your prices, as people wouldn't have a cheaper 
alternative.

I feel embarrassed that those are all the ways to get rich by Death 
Eating that I can think of.

In another piece of limited imagination, I haven't been able to 
figure out HOW a person uses *Transfiguration* for a job. Any ideas?