Imperio'ed Arthur Explains Weasley Economics!

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 46344

If you're reading an Agatha Christie novel, and a government employee
seems short for cash, what do you conclude?

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Blackmail! Arthur Weasley is being
blackmailed. 

Someone somewhere has information about what Arthur was up to during
the First War against Voldemort. Information that could land him in
Azkaban if it got into the hands of a less than understanding Fudge.
Information about his being Imperio'ed and forced to [fill in the blank].

Who, you say, can that person be?

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"Busy time at the Ministry, I hear," said Mr. Malfoy. "All those raids
... I hope they're paying you overtime?"

He reached into Ginny's cauldron and extracted, from amid the glossy
Lockhart books, a very old, very battered copy of A Beginner's Guide
to Transfiguration.

"Obviously not," Mr. Malfoy said. "Dear me, what's the use of being a
disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"

Mr. Weasley flushed darker than either Ron or Ginny.

"We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard,
Malfoy," he said.

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I rest my case. 

Eileen, Captain of the Catamaran Marines.