Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

[professorfionafawkes]

No: HPFGUIDX 113642

romuluslupin1:
> 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.


professorfionafawkes:
My theory is that since Molly takes such a fancy to Lockhart, that 
maybe she doesn't have so much hesitation to purchase Lockhart's 
books for the kids.  She herself swears by the sets that she has  
(thinking back to her looking up what Lockhart has to say about de-
gnoming the garden when this has obviously been done often enough at 
the Burrow not to warrant needing to look it up every time.)  Just my 
two knuts on the matter.