[HPforGrownups] Re: Both Parents Work? Where's the Canon?

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 47632


The paragraph immediately below is correct.  We don't know what Lily's 
profession was.

As for Mrs. Weasley's career being homemake and not working outside the home 
while we know her, despite the evident poverty of the Weasleys:  it's quite 
possible that she hasn't worked in a long while simply because providing 
child care and running kids around and getting herself to work might end up 
costing more, just as it does in the muggle world, than she could bring in.  
Also, perhaps it's just what she wanted to do, and Arthur agreed.  For 
example, for much of my life, had I been married, I'm sure I could have 
added more to the domestic economy by staying home, growing food in the 
garden, being frugal in all kinds of weird ways and concentrating on living 
a rich life rather than being rich than i could have in the job marketplace, 
since up until about 3 years ago I was staggeringly underemployed.

The Weasleys are anxious with private school tuitions, but their kids *are* 
all going to 'the best school'.  And perhaps with Percy now working and 
still living at home, the tide will start to turn for them.  I do have to 
confess to being somewhat weary of the constant examples of the Weasleys' 
impecunious situation; had i been harry, I would have found a dozen ways by 
now to give Ron or the other sibs anonymous Christmas presents or birthday 
presents of things they needed; or to have left maybe a few silver sickles 
here and there when visiting the Weasleys, as if someone had tucked them 
into a drawer and forgotten them.

but maybe the Weasleys are just bad money managers.  :-)  to be truthful, I 
would be happiest if that turned out to be the real explanation rather than 
some convoluted scenario about a "secret career" for Molly Weasley.  :-)  
That's just reality:  Americans, in particular, like to think they're all 
brilliant money managers and that everyone should be, but the reality is far 
different in most cases.  My ex-husband, for example, kept buying extraneous 
health and life insurance policies despite the fact that we were more than 
adequately covered (this was when i lived in Australia).

I think parents who are poor money managers but good people would be a very 
realistic way to handle this - and there is some evidence for this with the 
family trip to Egypt instead of buying Ron pajamas that fit.

Felinia

>
>I don't believe that we are sure that anyone besides Nevilles
><father> was an auror. And, as far as I know, Both James and Lilies
>professions, as well as where they got their money have yet to be
>revealed.
>
>The Idea that Lily and Mrs Longbottom were Auros <is> a common fanon
>idea tho, so that may be where you have seen it.
>See;
>
>http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/lily.html
>
>http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/longbottom.html
>
>
>
>Ellen, The Pottering Beekeeper
>
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Audra1976 at a... wrote:
> > Me:
> > Lily Potter and Mrs. Longbottom were both stated to be Aurors,
>weren't they?  Molly Weasley is the only stay-at-home mom we hear
>of.  Narcissa Malfoy probably doesn't work either, but that's only
>speculation, not stated in canon. By the same token, I can't imagine
>Mrs. LeStrange was a little housewife.  If I'm right, that means
>that while we don't get much information about couples, we know for
>sure of more working wives than not.
> >
> > Audra
>


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