[ SECRET POST #2608 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2608 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the Weasleys are actually all that poor. Molly doesn't have a job and doesn't seem to be looking for one, even after all the kids are in school. They're thrifty -- they don't usually spend money they don't need to, and their definition of 'need' is stricter than some.

[truxillogical]

Yeah. They reminded me of some cousins I had growing up. Comparatively, they were "poor." Their mother was a single mom school teacher, and hand-me-down clothes did happen (although they happened for me too, so..*shrug*). But that mostly meant that their mother was a little more frugal, that dinner was Kraft mac n' cheese some nights, that they had a few more chores that I did, and maybe slightly smaller Christmases. They weren't "impoverished" though. And it was also a warm, chaotic, loving house, and Molly Weasley always reminded me of that particular aunt, with the combination of tearing her hair out, but warm approachability.

Also, we are seeing them from Harry's PoV, and while Harry's life was super-meager, the Dursleys were pretty well-off. But there's still a pretty big gap between "more hand-me-downs than usual" and "struggling to make it day to day."

[(Anonymous)]

This is what I was thinking. I'm reminded a bit of the family I grew up next door to and for whom I babysat sometimes. I thought of them as being poor compared to us because their house was a bit smaller and and shabbier than ours, they owned a lot of used stuff, they were sticklers about not wasting food, and they were always saving things like jars and plastic containers for re-use. The fact that they could afford a frequent babysitter (and they paid me pretty well, too) should have clued me in that they weren't exactly poor. Then there was the fact that one of their kids was adopted (not exactly cheap) and they had toys like a Teddy Ruxbin and a Nintendo, which my parents would never have bought for me. Because they had different priorities about where to spend vs. save money than my parents, I just made a lot of clueless assumptions about what that meant.

The Weasleys could be the kind of people who like to live frugally because they value having a large savings cushion and/or little to no debt over having nicer material possessions or because they simply see no reason to buy new when used will do just fine. Ron may balk at his mother's homemade sweaters, but that's because he's at an age where looking cool amongst one's peers is really important. I doubt Mrs. Weasley cried over having to knit her son a sweater for Christmas instead of buying him something fancy because from her perspective, it's a labor of love of and a perfectly reasonable thing to do, not a tragic concession to being poor.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Harry went into their vault and saw there was nothing there