Generosity

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 56332


> bboy_mn:
> The Broom-
> First, we don't know that anybody actually GAVE the broom to Harry. 
It might have been paid for with school money and was therefore the
> school's broom. Harry may not have realized it, but it's possible 
when he graduated, they were going to ask for the broom back.
> 

It is still likely to me that McGonnagall gave Harry the broom. If 
she has one weak spot, it is Quidditch. Remember, she overlooked what 
Madame Hooch said was an expulsion-worthy offense -- Harry flying 
around during the first broomstick class -- because she saw a great 
Seeker flashing before her eyes.

 
> As far as the suggestion, the student who make the team are bought 
the best currently available broom, I doubt it. The Weasley twins 
broom seem to be very out of date; Cleansweep Fives. The current 
version of the Cleansweep series of brooms as of PS/SS is the model 
Seven, and Cleansweeps don't seem to be racing brooms. They seem more 
like general purpose brooms, although probably good general purpose 
brooms since Wood suggests them as a possible broom for Harry.

Bludgers and Keepers don't need as fast a brooms as the Chasers and 
the Seekers do anyway, so the twins might very well be fine with what 
they have.

> 
> bboy_mn:
> That would be me, although I hope there are others who agree. I 
can't believe that with all magic can do, there isn't some repair 
spell that is better that spell-o-tape.


Oh, I'd agree with that. Look, we all know JKR needed the wand broken 
at the end for Lockhart to get what was coming to him, but it still 
comes off a touch lame. (Especially in light of all the movie "Oculus 
Repairo" stuff.)

Maybe Ron finds a spell that is really tricky and complicated -- 
which would makes sense, because you wouldn't want expelled wizards 
and witches able to put wands back together very easily -- and he 
tries it, but only gets it part right. It still falls apart at 
inopportune moments.



> 
> As everyone has pointed out, buying a wand isn't that easy. You have
> to go their in person and be 'fitted' for the wand, so no neat 
little
> package under the Christmas tree. Harry suggested to Ron that he 
write
> home and ask his parents to buy him a new wand ($60 to $80), but Ron
> was afraid of getting another Howler from his mother. 

And unless Ollivanders has a franchise in Hogsmeade, Harry and Ron 
would have had to go back to London to get another wand, probably 
over the Christmas holiday, when they were needed for the Polyjuice 
stuff. 

And I'm not sure how transactions work in the wizard world. Harry and 
others make a point of going to Gringotts before the annual Diagon 
Alley shopping trip to get hard currency, but Sirius -- the most 
wanted wizard in the world -- is able to say, "take money out of my 
vault." 

Could Harry have walked into the Ollivanders Hogsmeade (assuming 
there is one) and said, "Take money out of my account"?
 
> When ever a situation occurs with any of the Weasley that emphasizes
> their poverty, Harry, in narative, says to himself that he would
> gladly share the money he has with the Weasleys, but he know none of
> them would take it. Look at Fred and George at the end of GoF. Harry
> had to struggle and threaten to get them to take the Tri-Wizards
> money, and of all the Weasleys, I think the Twins would be easiest 
to give money to. 
> 

Good point, and remember, in that same sequence, Harry tells 
them, "Buy Ron some new dress robes, and say they are from you." He 
is extremely sensitive to Ron's despair over being poor.

Darrin
-- Kung Fu Shoes, eh? Not bad