The Weasley's lack of wealth

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 177935

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> wrote:
> I thought that was a very tender and sad way of saying that the 
> Weasley family has been suffering all these years for their lack of 
> prejudice.  Eventually, (early HBP maybe?) Arthur gets promoted and 
> there seems to be less of a money problem after that.
>

va32h:

And the Weasley poverty had served it's purpose.  Harry is your basic 
secretly rich orphan, so his best friend naturally must come from a 
poor but loving family.  What one has the other lacks.  And this lays 
the groundwork for future conflicts and jealousies. 

Whenever the plot demands that the Weasleys not be poor, they 
miraculously aren't.  In CoS, the Weasley poverty serves a lots of plot 
devices.  Ginny needs secondhand books into which the diary can be 
slipped without notice. Ron needs a broken wand so that Lockhart's 
memory charm will backfire.  But when Ron needs a new wand the next 
year, Arthur conveniently wins several hundred galleons. 

The poverty comes in handy again in GoF, when Ron and Harry have their 
tiff, but once that's resolved, so are all mentions of Weasley money 
problems.  Molly worries over the cost of the broom, but she can still 
get it.  By HBP, Arthur has a promotion, the twins are doing well, and 
the Weasley money situation is no longer relevant. 

va32h