What to adult wizards do??

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No: HPFGUIDX 43943

Brenda W. wrote:
> what do wizards like Lucius Malfoy, 
or the 
> families of other Hogwarts students,  do to earn wizard money?

I've generally assumed that, in terms of jobs, any job that exists in 
the Muggle world probably exists in the wizard world, in some form.  

As you noted, we've seen politicians, teachers, a bus driver and 
conductor, & shop-owners.  We've also seen journalists, a professional 
writer (the infamous Lockhart!), bankers (Gringott's), professional 
athletes, a policeman-type (Moody, as auror), a researcher? 
or caretaker? of dragons (Charlie Weasley), and a nurse.  We've heard 
of a hospital, heard of musicians, and know of a variety of services & 
products required by wizards - and we can speculate about others 
(i.e., who keeps a rich wizard's books [accountancy]? Who watches the 
little wizard children in families where the single parent or both 
parents work? etc.).  We know there are just plain ol' rich people who 
have money via inheritance.

We know that slaves (House Elves) take care of some tasks in some 
families/institutions, such as cooking, cleaning & laundering, but we 
don't know that they are put to those tasks in all cases.  

So, I imagine that there are quite likely plenty of jobs, and 
permutations of jobs (i.e. a journalist might need an editor, and they 
both might need a printer, and the whole shebang might need a 
distribution agency).  There are magical ways of accomplishing certain 
activities, but that doesn't seem, in most cases, to negate a need for 
someone to perform some active function in concert with the magic 
(i.e., Mrs. Weasley can magically peel potatoes, instead of having to 
do it by hand; but she still has to know and perform the spell 
required to make it happen).

...and now that I'm thinking about this, what I'm curious about is 
what sort of unusual jobs might there be in the wizarding world - jobs 
you wouldn't find in the Muggle world?  Like being a dragon keeper 
(even though it's probably the equivelant of maybe a zoo keeper or 
forest services type of job, it's still *dragons!*  :P).

Hm!

Mahoney