Where did the money come from?

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 90544

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mrsbrooksathome" 
<mrsbrooksathome at y...> wrote:
> Here's a question that has always nagged at me: In the first book, 
> Hagrid tells Harry about his vault and all that good stuff, and on 
> numerou occasions throughout the series, Harry having more money 
> than Ron  is an issue.  Where did the money come from?  I know 
Lily 
> and James supposedly left it for him... But where did they get 
it?  
> And has anyone ever mentioned what they did for a living?  I know 
> they were in the OOTP, but as I understand it, that is not exactly 
a 
> paying career? Ideas?


LizVega here:

JKR said in an interview that James inherited the money and that HE 
DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE A WELL PAYING JOB- so maybe they didn't work at 
all?

If the timelines are correct, then it would've been very time 
consuming to work for the order, get married, have the baby, and do 
anything else in that amount of time. 

If I inherited a lot of money, and took into account the conditions 
I was living through ie voldemort, I probably wouldn't work either. 

I think it's interesting that jo said that james didn't have to have 
a well paying job- it makes me start thinking about all of the jobs 
that we know of that aren't well paying. Who's poor?