Weasley Accountant (was: Half-bloods, Pure-bloods, etc.)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 109367

Siriusly Snapey Susan wants to know:
> 
> >But why doesn't the WW need accountants, too?
> 
> And so do I.
> 
> They have banks and stores. People spend money, save money, donate
money 
> (Lucius Malfoy).  Of course they must have accountants.  If nothing
else, remember all those rows of goblins in Gringotts?  That's an
image straight out of a Dickens-era counting house.
> 
> I agree that the Weasley relative is probably a Squib, and that is the 
> reason they don't discuss him very often.  But you don't need magic
to be an 
> accountant.  It might help with things like self-sharpening quills and 
> making inkblots vanish, but whether you're a wizard or not, you have
to do 
> the calculations yourself.  On that level, wizards, squibs, and
muggles are 
> equal.  (Of course,  muggles have calculators and computers ...)
> 
> 
> Janet Anderson


Carol responds:
Maybe they have something resembling Rita Skeeter's Quick Quotes
Quill, only charmed to do correct calculations. (The teachers could
use something of the sort, too, considering how many papers they must
have to mark!) I can also picture magical cash registers that make
change for you rather than having to compute knuts and sickles in your
head or on parchment. We never see the merchants in Diagon Alley doing
anything of the sort. 

At any rate, I'm sure that the Weasley relative is a Squib, not a
Muggle, but do Squib relatives indicate a Muggle ancestor somewhere in
the past?

Carol