Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "romuluslupin1" 
<romuluslupin1 at y...> wrote:
> I was watching COS again yesterday and a thought struck me. Why 
did 
> the Weasleys, who are reputedly so poor, spend so much money on 5 
> sets of Lockhart's books. Even with Harry giving Ginny his free 
> copies (or is this movie contamination?) they must have dug a 
large 
> hole in the family finances. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy 
a 
> couple of sets and have the kids swap them on a need to use basis? 
> After all they have DADA lessons at different times (well, of 
course 
> Fred and George don't) and we saw from Harry's notes on FB that 
> books can be shared.
> 
> Romulus Lupin, who loves Gilderoy's Italian name better than 
> Lockhart (In Italian his name is Gilderoy Allock, which is an 
> anglicization of allocco, a name reserved for barn owls and morons,

My own take on this is that despite poverty the Weasley's hold with 
the old school (UK) view that every student should have a copy of 
the recommended text. Umbridge for example would have gone bonkers 
if any of her students hadn't been able to 'open your book at page 7 
and read the 1st chapter' (or whatever it was). Snape too expects 
this when he took Lupin's DADA class.

FB, on the other hand, is a library book and it is de rigeur to 
write on these (unless you're Hermione - but see 'pipes') and be 
repeatedly borrowed. Or maybe I'm thinking of QttA. Even if FB was 
Harry's personal copy he might still have passed 'his' copy around 
during homework in the 'common' room to anyone who'd left their copy 
upstairs in their trunk.

 
> which Gideroy definitely is)