[HPforGrownups] Re: Why buy 5 sets of Lockhart's book?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 113763

> Sen:
> 
> This post really stood out to me. It makes a *lot* of sense. Just 
> because the kids (well.. Ron) *thinks* they're poor, doesn't
> exactly make them charity cases.... I don't think the 
> Weasleys are hurting for money. They may not be Malfoy rich, but 
> they're not eating out of trashcans and living in a cardboard box 
> either. I would consider them Middle Class too. Middle class
> doesn't mean broke either. It just means you need to watch your 
> budget closely if you want to have more than the necessities. 


Yes, I agree with this.  But Ron's touchiness about his family's
poverty ("why is everything I own rubbish?") didn't appear out of
thin air.  I suspect he's heard Molly grumbling about it at home and
blaming Arthur's job in a small branch of the MOM as the reason. 
Kids do tend to pick up such background noise and incorporate it into
their mindsets.

It isn't helped of course because Ron is the youngest son and there
would be no one to pass new clothes down to if they bought him new
ones.  Also he grows so fast that the thought of buying new clothes
can be daunting for his parents.  (Why you can't just magically
adjust a hemline if not actually magic up new clothes is another
issue entirely.)

But I really think that Ron isn't upset so much with the poverty
issue as he is with the feeling that everything he owns is someone
elses' trash.  He's just the youngest Weasley boy who doesn't have
much that's actually his.  His mother knits him sweaters in colours
and makes him sandwiches that he doesn't like.  And then when she
hands him a set of dress robes that have tatty yellowing lace at the
neckline and sleeves, he finally blows a head pipe.  About time too.

Molly was hateful at that point in GOF.  Insensitive, callous,
hateful.  I don't care how much she "loves" her kids, that was simply
inexcusable to give Ron an article of clothing that would show him up
in front of the school as an object of mockery.

Magda




		
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