Weasley Poverty, Working Wizard Women; was Molly & Arthur - was Why I like Ginny

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 123706


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> 
wrote:
> I will take issue with your assertion that she works like house 
elf.  She works like a house elf doing what, exactly? (Snip> I can't 
imagine that cleaning charms are all that hard to cast, especially 
after many decades of using them. without all those people underfoot 
I doubt her house even needs that much cleaning all the time. (Snip)
but on the average I doubt she spends all that much time in 
> mindless household drudgery.
> 
> Magic is cool like that.


Tonks now:
Maybe it would be an insult to Arthur if she took a job. I think 
they have old values. Also as someone else mentioned she has more 
than the house to look after. There is a small farm there. Also  
most Muggles think that magic is just wave a wand and that is it. 
Look at Harry when he cast some spells it wipes him out. A witch or 
wizard put energy into a spell. I think it takes just as much energy 
to clear the house with magic as it does with a vacuun cleaner, etc.

Molly has done more than her share of work and if she doesn't want 
to become some sort of *modern* witch that can only fullfill herself 
by working at some job that she would probably hate, then I say that 
she does not have to!!!  Money isn't everything. And as to their old 
age. Again this is the WW, not the *modern* Muggle world. They has 7 
children, the children will take care of them, just like it has 
always been in the old days. That is why people with no money have 
lots of kids. Or at least one of the reasons. Their world is not 
like ours. 

Tonks_op
(who has never had kids because I don't want to work that hard!!)