Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 113633

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:
> --- 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)

Not to nitpick, but yes, QttA was the library's copy, FB was 
Harry's, which he shared with Ron because his fell apart. (And then 
Hermione adds a note chiding Ron, in typical Hermy fashion, for 
purchasing a bag of dungbombs instead of a new text, to which Ron 
replies, and I quote: DUNGBOMBS RULE!) 

Meri, who, despite having had five years of Italian lessons, now 
fully appreciates what an expressive and interesting language it 
is...