Why are some poor, others rich in the WW?

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 66693

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ccm50_2000" <ccm at t...> wrote:
> I've been curious about this for a while. If wizards and witches can
> conjure things into existence, why is anyone poor in the wizarding
> world? Why does Lupin have a tattered, patched robe? Why couldn't he
> conjure himself a new robe? Why does Ron have to buy a used dress 
robe
> instead of having his parents create a new one for him? Why does 
Molly
> make Christmas sweaters? Why not create them magically? Dumbledore 
can
> conjure a chair to sit in so why can't wizards conjure up whatever
> they need - food, clothing, shelter, money? Just curious.
> Charlotte

This response may run a little short on why, but JKR has said in 
interviews that you cannot magic yourself wealthy.  I believe that it 
is the long-standing opinion of many that conjuring lasts only 
briefly and in direct relation to the talent of the wizard; 
therefore, you could not permanently conjur yourself new robes.  That 
said, why not continuously re-conjur things? I think that there is 
some finite level of magical resourse that has to replenish over 
time.  This is a common element of magic throughout all genres and 
may help explain why some wizards are more powerful than others and 
why wizards do not just constantly do things magically.

Additionally, IMHO, much of what we the readers perceive as conjuring 
may actually be something like instant summoning.  For example, when 
Mrs. Weasley cooks, surely she doesn't conjur food - it would 
disappear inside people's bodies.  I think that she may instantly 
remove it from somewhere and cause it to appear in the pan or shoot 
from her wand.  Likewise for Dumbledore's chairs at the MoM hearing 
in OoP.  It sounded to me like the chair he conjured may have 
actually been inst-summoned from his own office many miles away.  The 
descriptions of his office furnishings and the chair seem to be 
similar.  There is cannonical precedent for such inst-summoning.  We 
have seen that the food on the tables in the great hall is laid out 
on tables below in the kitchen and then reappears on the house tables 
above as if vanishing through nothing.

jsmithqwert