[HPforGrownups] Subject: Re: At what time is a witch/wizard categorized as one?

[Jane Starr]

No: HPFGUIDX 88950

--- Rhyannon <rhyannon at house-endymion.net> wrote:
> Rhyannon here....
<snip>
> I was also frustrated at learning that after all
> these
> years Neville has been using his father's wand. 
> While the Weasley family
> has a financial reason for not being able to provide
> a brand new wand for
> each child, it seems that the Longbottom family, who
> know that a wizard will
> never get as good as results from another wizard's
> wand, could easily have
> provided Neville with his own wand.  

JES:
Well, your theory may be right, but mine is that
Neville's family is not actually be all that well off.
 Look at his grandmother, wearing the same mouldy fur
tippet and grotty vulture hat for the last dunnomany
years. I expect she comes from a background of genteel
poverty, where you are use things until they
disintigrate, and to buy a new wand when there is a
perfectly good unused one sitting around is a wanton
waste of good money. I wouldn't be at all surprised if
she gives him his mum's old wand next.

JES

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