[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's money (was Ron, Harry, Molly, Money)

[RhianynTheCat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59866

In a message dated 6/10/2003 12:03:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jestahijinx at hotmail.com writes:

> All 
> I'm saying is, it [speaking of financial planning] really is not something 
> that comes naturally to most 
> people 
> 
Rhianyn rouses from her firesde contemplation to postulate:

Well, no, but then a lot of things don't.  Most things even.  Despite what we 
may be taught as kitlings, our own talents and interests make us gravitate 
toward our own unique "knacks".  My own mother is a fantastic domestic engineer 
with a home that is always immaculate.  And she did try to teach me as did my 
aunts with similar qualities.  But I always wanted to be doing outside things. 
 So now, when faced with major housecleaning traumas I find myself wondering 
about very basic things like 'do I clean the tub and toilet first as I hate 
doing those, then move on to the floor?' and have to reason my way thru the idea 
that I'm likely to dirty the floor doing the tub and toilet and will have to 
do the floor twice if I do it first.  But give me any plant to grow or about 
any animal of any species to train and I excel.  And just to bring it back to 
mathematical matters I eventually realized that I get X amount of dollars for 
an hour spent training critters and it costs Y amount of dollars per hour to 
pay someone to clean the house and that X is substantially greater than Y so I 
was actually losing money by doing it myself.

Of course you must keep in mind that I as close as failed math in school as 
one could get.  So either I slipped into creative thinking (which I fondly 
believe is another of my strong points) or I was driven by need to come up with a 
plausibly sound (to me anyway ;P) mathmatical theory.  Either way, my natural 
tendencies or need transcended my education.

I think given common sense which Harry mostly has, (with some glaring 
exceptions) one can muddle thru the day to day mundanities of life.  However great 
intelligence and common sense don't necessarily go hand in hand which, I think, 
is where you get very bright people who squander away lifes resources.  One 
thing I've always found attractive in Hermione is that she is very bright, with 
a good deal of common sense as well.  I tend to think about Ron that he has 
the "goods" mentally but maybe not the common sense and given that 1000 pounds 
that Harry gave the twins, Ron would squander it.  Gred and Forge, on the other 
hand, are far more likely to parlay it into more money.  Same basic 
nurturing, different outcome.  Nature over nurture :)

Sadly, I seem to have been very rough on Ron lately, but I really _do_ like 
him

:::Curls fluffy black tail about herself just _so_ and returns to napping by 
the fire::::
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