The Weasley's lack of wealth

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177953

> > Magpie:
> > We know he's not above creating laws around his own wishes, his
> > house is full of stuff that he's supposed to be preventing, and he
> > gets a pile of tickets for the QWC that are hard to come by by
> > smoothing over an incident involving a friend.
> >
> > I've heard the word "corrupt" used to describe Arthur many times.
> 
> 
> Magpie, with that logic you can call Dumbledore corrupt too, with 
all
> the times he swings things to get Harry off.  Unfortunatley even in
> the Wizarding World money makes the world go around.
> 
> **So maybe the Weasleys were not as corrupt, but maybe that is 
because Molly has more scruples than Arthur.
> 
> **But you also have to remember Corruption has helped even the good 
guys at key points in the story.
> 
> ((Even with all the good in the world you have to have some BAD so
> you can see the GOOD.))   :-)


Magpie:
Harry's been lucky sometimes to have somebody pulling strings for 
him. Look at Sirius who, without powerful enough friends, sat in jail 
with no trial. 

Corruption has helped the good guys during the story, yes. It's still 
corruption. Arthur doesn't stand out to me as the guy getting 
punished for not being corrupt. He's got his own personal 
justifications and ideas about what it's okay to do, and just sticks 
to that. I think people--including good guys--would benefit more from 
less corruption.

-m