Harry Helping Ron Financially?

[ibchawz]

No: HPFGUIDX 142860


> Foodiedb:
> 
> > Hi all, 
> > I am rather new at this, so I am sorry if this has already been 
> > covered, but I was wondering why Harry doesn't offer to financially 
> > help Ron and family?  For example, why doesn't he offer to buy Ron 
a 
> > new wand in Chamber, or why doesn't he offer to buy them a new 
> > house, etc.., etc.
> 
> 
> va32h wrote:
> I think that Ron and his family would be rather embarrassed by such a 
> gesture - and Harry would not want to do that to his best friend and 
> the family he loves so much. 

ibchawz responds:
Harry realizes this in GOF.  At the Quidditch World Cup, Harry buys 
stuff for Ron and Ron attempts to refuse these gifts.  Harry convinces 
Ron that they are early Christmas presents.  He later pays Harry for 
these with the Leprechaun gold.  In the CoMC class, the niffler 
retrieves the leprechaun gold and Hagrid warns the class there is no 
need to try to steal the gold since it will disappear anyway.  Ron 
questions Harry as to why he never mentioned that the gold 
disappeared.  Ron again feels that he owes Harry.  

Harry also gives the TWT winnings to Fred and George as startup capital 
for their joke shop.  He instructs them to buy Ron new dress robes and 
to not tell anyone where they got the galleons.  Since Fred and George 
are now self supporting, the Weasley family is not as financially 
stressed.

These instances indicate to me that Ron may be poor but he is still 
proud and doesn't want any handouts or pity.