[ SECRET POST #2608 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2608 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Material wealth didn't make much sense in the Wizarding World if you thought about it for more than two seconds. You could be a poor wizard but still be able to materialize things with magic. Why couldn't create spells to whip of houses, furniture, clothes and things like that?

And while Wizard banks were warded against magic to stop people from teleporting in and out and robbing the place, why didn't anyone clean out Muggle banks of their gold and jewels. No one thought about stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London?

[quantumreality]

I think it's precisely the general replicability of physical objects in the magical world; stealing crown jewels would make no sense because if you wanted to just wear one you could conjure a reasonable fake.

Also, given that there are laws against "Muggle-baiting", I assume that theft of Muggle assets is probably covered under that and similar acts, as Pureblood-biased as the system is.

[(Anonymous)]

Word of God has it that conjured things disappear eventually (not to mention Golpalott's law of shit that can't be created).

As for thievery I'm sure people tried, but it draws attention to the Wizarding World and would probably bring the Ministry down on them.

[(Anonymous)]

This. And remember the leprechaun gold that disappeared?

[loracarol]

Does the sixth book open with the magical prime minister talking with the muggle prime minister, and revealing that they have contact with each other? Because I figured, if that was the case, then maybe the wizarding government secretly protected some of the muggle jewels and what not.

It would also be a good idea on their end (I think, I've never actually taken an economics class, so I'm trying to piece things together from what I do know); protect the muggle money and what not so that wizards can't steal it and insert it into the wizarding world, which might cause wizarding world things to get devalued? It's why we can't just "print money", because it would devalue the money in existence, you can't just steal precious metals/jewels from the muggle world and use it in the wizarding world, as that would devalue the money/jewels/etc. in the wizarding world.

I think, maybe. If that made any sense. >_>;

[intrigueing]

Totally! The possibilities for coming up with these kinds of theories is probably my favorite thing to do in canons with lots of broad-strokes worldbuilding. I also think JKR would approve, since she seems to have a sense of humor about her math!fail and stuff. ;)

[loracarol]

Yeah, I know where she's coming from. |D I mean, I don't find *math* hard per se, but I do find trying to determine sizes to be hard, like, I can't really visualize how many people a certain number is, or other things like that. |D

[misty_anon]

I wouldn't doubt there were some wizarding families who'd steal from Muggles and not see it as anything wrong, but the Weasleys always struck me as an honest, law-abiding family (ignoring Fred and George's jokes, which probably bent a few laws, at least). Maybe that's one of the reasons why they were so poor.