Harry's Guardian? ...& Reward

[Petra Pan]

No: HPFGUIDX 73782

arobotti at lightspeedcommunications.net (Anne):
> This has always bothered me, how come
> Harry doesn't help the Weasleys out
> more? He's got gobs of money sitting
> in that bank, and he never even brings
> a present when he goes over there.

rdhdwldflwr at comcast.net (Sharon):
> Me too!!  You never hear about what
> Harry got anyone for Christmas
> (except in HP5 when he gave Mr Weasley
> the fuse stuff or when he told the
> twins to get Ron new robes).  He was
> so thrilled in the first book on the
> train to be sharing candy with Ron you
> would think he would be a little more
> "giving"! 

Having read the opinions above, I am 
curious to find out what you make of the 
following (taken from the end of the 
scene/chapter where Mrs. Weasley had to
admit that she had to get Ron's dress 
robes secondhand, which meant there 
Weren't a lot of choices):

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Chapter Ten

Harry looked away. He would willingly 
have split all the money in his Gringotts 
vault with the Weasleys, but he knew they 
would never take it.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ GoF

Though in truth, it's not all the Weasleys 
who would feel any qualm - Fred & George 
overcame theirs quickly enough!  :)  But 
Ron certainly didn't want Harry buying 
stuff for him at QWC and I do agree with 
Harry's assessment - that Mr. and Mrs. 
Weasley seem more likely to make do (buy 
second-hand robes and set books etc.) 
than accept anything from Harry.

In short, Molly and Arthur do not see 
Harry as being one of their peers and 
surely considers it their place (nay...
their privilege!) to give to Harry.  For 
Harry to give the Weasleys something 
they could use seem to imply that 
Molly and Arthur couldn't fulfill 
their own needs while an orphan can.

I agree that trivials like a bouquet 
of flowers or a box of Chocolate Frogs 
whenever Harry stays over would be a 
nice gesture that couldn't be 
mistaken for anything but tokens of 
appreciation...however...we ARE talking 
about a 'realistic' teenage boy here, 
right?!  <wink>  He's also never had 
much time to plan on buying presents 
before he arrives at the Burrow.

Petra
a
n  :)

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