[HPforGrownups] Saving every Sickle (Was: Percy and the Weasleys' finances)

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 59208


--- Janet Anderson <dorigen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, but they also need to consider the feelings of
> teenagers, for whom 
> looking bad or different is a painful and traumatic
> experience. If Molly 
> actually couldn't afford new robes for Ron, that's
> one thing (and that's the 
> impression I got). If she actually could have gotten
> him something better 
> and made him wear "girly" robes to make a point,
> that's something altogether 
> different, rather heartless in my opinion, and
> likely to embitter him and 
> make him turn away from the very values she thinks
> are important.


She did not give him "girly" robes to teach him a
lesson.  She got him really old robes.  She said there
wasn't much to choose from, and I have no reason to
doubt her.


Rebecca

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