[HPforGrownups] Draco's and Harry's wealth (was:Re: Pansy Parkinson (Was: House characteristics)

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 150733


On Apr 8, 2006, at 1:59 PM, horridporrid03 wrote:

> The only reason I thought this at all worth mentioning (way, way
> upthread <g>) was it was just one more example of Harry having more
> power than Draco.  It was yet one more way that Draco failed to
> fulfill the "powerful bully" role that he'd have probably been put in
> if this were an actual school-days story.


kchuplis:

I guess I continue to fail to understand why it is necessary to  
discuss what HP is not. (I wasn't aware of the "school days" story  
genre nor elements of such a genre). I guess that I also do not see  
it as making Harry more powerful that he has direct access to money  
(so to speak - yes, he gets a sack at the beginning of term, but we  
see in PoA that he is very careful with it so that he never gets in a  
position where he is short).  Harry does not *act* upon the direct  
access to largess, where as Draco seems to be the sort of "rich kid"  
in behaviour and acquisitions that *does* act upon the family fortune  
even though he doesn't have direct access. To me, that makes him  
effectively "richer" than Harry which I think does fulfill your  
character requirement, but that is just IMO. Perhaps it is because in  
Harry's POV there is the constantly Poor Weasley Family that causes a  
bit of a warped view of Harry's wealth. I just think Draco can have  
whatever Draco wants basically but Harry would LIKE to give the  
Weasley's what he does not need because he controls his budget fairly  
effectively. Just another way in which we all seem to view characters  
differently.