Harry's Gold

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 130670

Laura Lynn Walsh :
> 
> Well, we know of at least one way to make gold - the
> Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone.  There was one KNOWN
> maker of the Philosopher's Stone. (PS, p. 161).  What
> if Lily had been able to make another Philosopher's
> Stone?  Or what if James were related to Nicholas
> Flamel?  What if Lily's secret is that she was able
> to make a Philosopher's Stone and that Voldemort
> had promised to spare Harry if she would tell him
> how? 

Finwitch:

Well, on Rowling's webpage www.jkrowling.com - on Extra Stuff/edits 
it says that her disregarded plan was that James&Lily had stolen the 
stone... but, of course, that didn't really work out.

There's also a notion that 'James didn't need a high-paying job' - 
and that he, too, had *inherited* the Potter fortune. As for where 
Harry's grandparents got it, well... apparently it's not important to 
the plot, but...

I got one silly idea, regarding Harry's hair: remember how it defied 
all attempts to flatten or cut it in Philosopher's Stone - and how 
very much it looked like James' hair -- even though Lily apparently 
thought James had *taken effort to make it look like he had just 
coumd out of playing Quidditch*?

What I thought was that, quite possibly, James was trying to flatten 
it in vain or pretending his hair was like that because he wanted it 
to be so BUT in truth his hair was just as defying of barbering as 
Harry's.

And that this kind of 'Potter-hair' was hereditary, as well as a 
certain defiance. 

I'd say that very long time ago...

1)Potters made Pottery and sold it.
2)They made *bets* about their hair - that particularly if someone 
commented as to how messy it was - they'd make a bet that the other 
does something to fix it (and since they never could, the Potter won 
the bet)...
3)They've made good investments (Harry investing into WWW may have 
been one) that turned out to be very profitable.

Finwitch