Weasleys and Money

[kittycatta]

No: HPFGUIDX 40372

Hana:
<<<<Has anyone ever noticed that they (the Weasleys) don't really 
have their priorities straight
when it comes to money? Thier kids all have hand-me-down robes, 
wands, and
pets but when, in POA, they won seven hundred galleons they spent 
most of on a
trip to Egypt. Sure, the family was thrilled to go on the vacation, 
and they
got to see Bill, and Ron did get a new wand but surely they could 
have done
something better all that money such as buying new robes, clothing, 
supplies,
and brooms for their kids so that Ginny and Ron at least didn't feel
embarrassed and inferior to everyone at school?>>>> 
  
Me:
That is true.  That is probably what I would also do, go and buy 
robes and things, and especially books.  It certainly seems the 
practical thing to do.  But . . . if the Weasleys had gone to 
Flourish and Blotts to get books, would they have that picture of the 
*entire* family, including Scabbers/Pettigrew, in the Daily Prophet?  
Remember, in the denouement of PoA, Sirius told them that he had 
learned that Scabbers/Pettigrew was alive by that picture in the 
Daily Prophet.  We know (although sometimes we pretend we don't ;) 
that JKR sometimes has to stretch a point in order to make other 
points of the book work.  So, I'll believe that the Weasley family 
went to Egypt instead of buying books, if it ends up revealing that 
Scabbers is really Peter Pettigrew.

-Catta, who went over this pathetic first post for an hour in hopes 
that she won't make a fool of herself.