[HPforGrownups] Random Thoughts

[Melissa McCarthy]

No: HPFGUIDX 56982

Lynn wrote:
> 1.  Now that Percy is working, is he paying his
> parents room and board?  Is that why he thinks
> everyone in the house has to be very quiet and
> why he doesn't have to share his room in GoF?
> (Yea, yea, I know what Ron says about why Percy
> doesn't have to share his room.)

It's possible that he's paying them room and board, but I figured his
insistence on quiet comes partly from a need for quiet to work (with which I
sympathise!) and a general feeling of self-importance :)

> 2.  At what age do wizards move out from mummy
> and daddy's and get their own place?

I imagine this would vary the same way it does in the Muggle world, and for
the same reasons.  The first job a young witch/wizard gets after graduating
from Hogwarts isn't likely to pay that well, the same as in our world.

> 3.  Are there special wizard realtors or do
> wizards have to deal with Muggle realtors when
> they want to buy a house?

There would pretty much have to be special realtors.  A Muggle realtor would
be hard-pressed to understand a wizard's requirements in a house (must not
have eckeltricity, must have large fireplace for Floo powder rather than an
electric fire, etc.).

> 4.  Why didn't Bill, Charlie or Mr. Weasley lend
> Ron their dress robes for the Yule Ball?  Even a
> bit big, it would have been better than what Ron
> had to wear.  I'm assuming Fred and George were
> wearing Bill and Charlie's old ones.

I assumed that the elder Weasleys had sold their robes to a secondhand
store, since they're always short of money.  Fred and George are the short
stocky ones, right? so they wouldn't be able to wear their older brothers'
robes anyway.

> 5.  Why do the Weasleys keep buying the textbooks
> second hand when the older kids could just pass
> down their books?

It looks to me like the textbooks change from year to year, depending on the
professor and the publication of new books.

My brain gave out here....  I hope other people have answers to the rest of
the questions!

Melissa McCarthy