Molly and the twins (Re: Am I the only one)

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 96052

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy King" <kking0731 at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Del:
> 3. They have no source of income whatsoever (she doesn't know 
aboutthe TWT 
> winnings)
> 
> Kathy:
> Harry told Ron and Hermione in OOP pg.680 that he gave the twins 
his 
> triwizard winnings to start the joke shop. Ron asked could he tell 
his mom 
> and Harry said, "Yeah, I suppose you'd better
 Specially if she 
thinks 
> they're receiving stolen cauldrons or something
" I take it from 
this quote 
> that Molly does know about the money.
> 

About the twins' income sources, I'd just like to add that they were 
doing quite well with the Canary Creams in book four (Harry noticed 
how people were turning into canaries all over the place) and earned 
lots of Galleons on the fireworks in book five. I wouldn't make the 
analogy with teenagers who spend all their time playing video games, 
the twins are rather more like those who spent their evenings and 
nights in front of the computer, created original software and in the 
end creating their own OS, while their parents complained that their 
kids didn't get out more or grounded them from using the computer.  
Lots of geniuses had only the most basic school training, Edison for 
example. Einstein's teacher never thought he'd amount to much. 
Neither does an education automatically mean that you are going to 
get a good life.

Alshain