money in WW

[Marcus]

No: HPFGUIDX 44261

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "anniemagus" <anne_conda at w...> wrote:
> 
> I often wondered how much money you NEED in WW at all ( if you 
don't 
> have children needing money to buy school stuff etc). How much you 
> can get with a simple spell? If you want to have a fresh fish for 
> example- isn't it possible you point your wand at a....er...a lousy 
> drawer and transfigure it into a delicious perch*licksherlips*? 

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "eaten out of house and 
home."  :-)

Have you priced drawers lately?  I have.  There is no way I am going 
to change an expensive drawer into a meal!  

Seriously, you still do need the raw materials.  Rowling has stated 
that things created out of thin air do not last.  I hate to think 
what would happen to a body after digesting food made from thin air 
when the nuitrients go 'poof'.  If you are going to create food by 
magic, you undoubtedly have to have raw ingredients some place where 
they can be transported to your kitchen and transfigured into edible 
food.  

If memory serves correctly, magically appearing food occurs only 
twice in the Harry Potter series -- not counting the food transport 
from the kitchen to the Great Hall tables.  They are the sauce that 
came out of Molly Weasley's wand, and the sandwiches that fed Ron and 
Harry in Snape's office.

The sandwiches are easily explained.  Somewhere there is a snack 
larder that the teachers can tap into when in need, such as working 
late.  McGonagall simply tapped into it for Ron and Harry.

The sauce likely came from somewhere else and was transported to 
saucepan via Molly's wand.

Marcus