>my best friend just found out he's basically become a billionaire overnight>why is my family still living in poverty
>>219841727Would you, if you were Arthur Weasley - middle aged government functionary living in genteel poverty, accept the charity of an 11 year old child?
The books address this, his family refuses to take Harry's money because they're too proud. That's why Harry gives money to Fred and George so they can found a joke shop.
>>219841814Doesn't the dad have a comfy wizard version of a government job?
>>219841810>>219841814They're clearly Irish Catholics.Yes, Irish gladly take charity unlike Anglos
>>219841832Yes. It's a movie thing. His family is the equivalent of rich farmers. Wealthy and able to live comfortably but not FuckYou old money rich like the Malfoys.
>>219841727Harry wasn't really billionaire tier rich
>>219841832He was forced to take a low-paying position at the ministry after losing all the family money in an ill-fated muggle clothing venture.
Money doesnt matter that much when you live in some utopian magical romantic version of europe before sandniggers and jeets took over
>>219841832Yes and he literally raises 7 kids on one salary. Bill works as a cursebreaker and is loaded, Charlie is in Romania taming dragons and Percy is literally the secretary to the Minister Of Magic. The Weasleys are loaded.Later Hermione marries Ron and they both are heroes, George has the Joke shop and Ginny is a pro quidditch player and Harry is literally the top dog auror.
>>219842122So a bunch of privileged kids, while Malfoy was fighting for the common man
>>219842166>POTTAH!>have you read Marx?
>>219842166>Malfoy was fighting for the common manlmfao how?
>>219841727Harry wasn't that rich. Maybe low millions in British pounds.There is a serious gold inflation in the wizarding world. Wizards being poor doesn't make any sense in the first place. Unless they are borderline squibs. You can just use magic to create valuable products/properties or straight up steal from muggles with no real consequences. And then exchange your muggle assets into wizard assets or live in the muggle world and no deal with wizard prices for most things.
>>219842364It's about status. The Weasleys clearly weren't struggling. But there are things that can't be easily bought (like wands)
>>219842364>let muggles deal in the real worldkek
>>219842364>doesn't make any senseNothing about the Harry Potter world makes any sense because that's not what the story is about. Half of each movie is dedicated to showing completely absurd ways to travel from point A to B, each more ridiculous like the next, and they add NOTHING to the story. On the other hand, just think of what a young teenager would do with the cloak of invisibility.
>>219842166I think all the wizards are ''rich'' in that their family has property and they don't really need money, there's not enough of them around to have some be poor and even then being poor is having to use a second-hand wand (although I think Molly just didn't like Ron since Ginny got a new one and so did all his brothers). The only other example of a poor wizarding family I can remember is the Gaunt family, they're probably just inbred and stupid.
