>"oh gee golly we're so POOR">takes family of 9 to Egypt on vacation
What year? Airfare used to be cheap and Egypt lost a war with israel.
>>220070546>implying you need money if you can simply appear wherever you think of
>>220070546people used to be able to afford vacations in the 90s when this took place. even poor people.
Literally the only expensive thing about an Egypt trip would be air travel to get there and they can ride brooms and/or teleport. Visiting the Pyramids is probably a low effort day trip for them
>>220070546they also have a huge house on a farm
>>220070639No we couldn't
>>220070546Who are the two brothers in the back?
>>220070720Charlie and Bill
>>220070546Hey, moron: they only went because Arthur won the Daily Prophet lottery draw for 700 galleons.Spending an entire windfall on a vacation instead of long-term savings and necessities IS a poor person move.
>>220070740Which was the one that was molested by the Minister of Magic?
>>220070747good point. op btfo
If the Weasleys didn't win and weren't posted on the Daily Prophet:>Sirius would have never seen Scabbers/Pettigrew>Sirius would not have escaped Azkaban>Pettigrew would have never returned to human form and worked quickly to resurrect Voldemort>Harry would have never had access to the Black home at Grimmauld Place>Harry would not have spoken to Kreacher and figured out how to get the real Slytherin locket horcrux
>>220070546Wasn't this compensation for what happened to Ginny in Chamber of Secrets, or am I misremembering?
>>220070921Arthur won the lottery. Literally.
>>220070983So it wasn't rigged or something?
>>220070921Not quite, although it's a popular fan theory that Fudge and Lucius rigged the drawing to keep the Weasleys quiet.In reality, it's just a plot device for Rowling so the Ron could have an excuse for a new wand and the rest of the story could fall into place.
>>220070546they can teleport retard. and fly
>>220071025Once again, Rowling stumbles onto a cool plot point and doesn't do it.
>>220071057I have no faith in the HBO adaptation to capitalize on these happy coincidences or theories either.
>>220070546Didnt knew Father Brown had kids!
>>220070639HOyl fuck you zoomers are so fucking annoying with your anti-boomerism. You retards literally think every boomer used to be able to afford a 3000 square foot house and go on vacation to Japan or Italy every year.Our idea of a "vacation" was dad taking the station wagon and going on a road trip to some national park. IF you were upper middle class you went to Disney World or something.
>>220070546They can literally teleport and make a small tent into a 4 bedroom house
>>220071005JKR rigged it
>>220070546I never understood how the Weasley’s just kept getting pregnant in a world full of charms and potions. It’s extremely easy to get contraception in the muggle world. Surely there’s a potion or plant that prevents fertilization.
>>220071681Because Molly really wanted a girl. And Arthur was the seventh son in his family.
>>220071681Molly wanted a girl while marrying into a bloodline that was known for only having sons.
>>220071573None of that is cheap. They borrowed the tent from a co-worker. The wizarding world simply doesn't have mass-produced commodities apart from brooms or very common potion ingredients. Anything even slightly specialized commands a big premium. And as a result, anything that is in demand (but not a lot of demand) is made even more expensive.
>>220070546There are worse ways to spend your money, like taking your family of 9 to see the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.>a-at least the books were good though"No!"The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
>>220071758>>220071750HivemindMolly was so FERTILE that it took SIX SONS to tank her fertility enough to produce a girl.Boys are more metabolically demanding upon the mother.
>>220070602Magic costs money to use
>>220070602That takes skill and calories.
>>220070867>story written by a woman is full of contrivances, mostly designed to make men who are 5' 4" the antichristsay it ain't so
>>220071790>"No!"Gets me every time.
they can just teleport all over the worldprobably make food out of thin airmaybe charm a hotel owner for free rooms
>>220071916>they can just teleport all over the worldIt's not easy or safe>probably make food out of thin airFood is one of the three exemptions of Gamp's law>maybe charm a hotel owner for free roomsArrested for muggle-baiting
