The Weasley's lack of wealth

[marion11111]

No: HPFGUIDX 177944

> Mus is puzzled:
> 
> But Molly has neither a position nor a salary.  She's a housewife who
> worries about the cost of schoolbooks and clothes, for whom buying 
Ron
> a broom when he is made Prefect is a problem:
> 

marion11111 is too:

I don't see how any wizard couple can have two incomes.  As far as I 
can tell, the children are homeschooled until they go to Hogwarts.  
Maybe they use grandparents or kindly neighboring elderly witches.  I 
suppose Ginny/Harry and Ron/Hermione just packed the kids off to 
Molly. 

It almost seems as though wizards-with-money get that way by 
inheriting vaults of galleons or large houses. And then they never 
work again.  What *does* Lucius do besides bribe Ministry officials?