Weasleys and the Problem of Money

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48175

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Darla 
<Talkative_alien_4000 at y...>" <Talkative_alien_4000 at y...> 
wrote:
>  There's been something nagging at me about the Weasleys 
lack of  money. If they are so hard up, as they appear to be on 
several 
> occasions (i.e hand-me-down robes, shortage of family owls 
etc), why did they blow the money they won in PoA on a holiday 
abroad? <<

They'd just been through a horrible, horrible experience. Their 
youngest child was possessed by the most evil dark wizard in a 
hundred years,  and none of them, none of them realized what 
was happening. Imagine the guilt. The prize money must have 
seemed like a blessing from heaven. I'm sure they felt a huge 
desire to get away,  bond again as a family, escape being 
questioned by well-meaning friends, etc.

Pippin