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Post by PunkyTurtle018 on Aug 30, 2005 14:33:08 GMT -5
How did this happen? We haven't heard about James being some big international Quidditch Player. We haven't heard about them doing some huge job, or anything. How did they come to have all that money for Harry?
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Post by flames on Sept 1, 2005 16:57:35 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmm. I don't really know. But the only Wizarding family we know about money wise is the Weasleys and everyone knows they're poor. Maybe they were average and most wizarding families have about that much.
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Post by rae on Sept 1, 2005 18:15:57 GMT -5
possibly through inheritance? james was pureblood wasn't he? maybe he got it from his parents.
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Post by fairymargarita on Sept 1, 2005 20:55:22 GMT -5
possibly through inheritance? james was pureblood wasn't he? maybe he got it from his parents. yeah, i totally think James got it all from his own family. or maybe, he was just very very successful? |
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Post by tiffany on Sept 1, 2005 21:11:12 GMT -5
Yeah, or because his mother and father were rich, throughout the years, the "allowance" that James received, he stored it. Or he was just really lucky in his job once he graduated out of Hogwarts. And Lily was really smart, so she could have ... founded something or invented something? I doubt it, but maybe ... lol
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Post by alexa on Sept 2, 2005 9:43:30 GMT -5
maybe they had like a 'piggy bank' for harry:D and of course james -being a pureblood- probablly had a lot of money... lilly i'm not sure ...i mean well hmmm from her family not think so cos they don't have wizard money  but she was smart! so she could've got a great job right? |
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Post by PunkyTurtle018 on Sept 2, 2005 16:24:03 GMT -5
See, I think there's just more to it than that. I don't think they were really successful because even if James saved his "allowance" that still doesn't explain the HEAPS of gold in his vault. I honestly don't think most of it came from Lily and James.. I have a feeling some of it's from Dumbledore.. But that's just me. I just don't remember where it says James' parents were rich or anything, and there's such a play on Harry's money, I just think it'd odd we don't know where it comes from.
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Post by avchocaholic on Sept 2, 2005 17:16:27 GMT -5
possibly through inheritance? james was pureblood wasn't he? maybe he got it from his parents. I agree with that. The only pureblood family we've seen that hasn't had a fairly large amount of money is the Weasleys. |
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Post by PunkyTurtle018 on Sept 2, 2005 19:07:09 GMT -5
We don't know that. We don't know who all the Pure Bloods are or how much money they have. Only the Malfoy/Black family, where rich married rich. Anyone else we've heard about, we can only assume.
What's got you assuming all Pure Bloods are rich?
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Post by Saturn on Sept 3, 2005 9:28:59 GMT -5
Probably through inheritance. I mean, probably the name "Potter" is a upper-middle class name (where as with Malfoy, they are the upper-upper class name).
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Post by Monica on Sept 3, 2005 10:08:53 GMT -5
Well, Jo has said that James' parents were very old when they had him. They were probably really well off by the time they had him, since they had nothing really to spend money on.
And with what James probably inherited, and what he made himself, that probably was a lot of money.
And remember, we don't know what James did for a living. Nor Lily. And Jo said it would be important. That's probably a part of the puzzle.
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Post by renor faer on Sept 3, 2005 13:31:06 GMT -5
I think that whatever they did will be found out at like..the end of the book.
and, i know it's a very out there theory..but i think that James might have been an Auror, and maybe Dumbeldore told everyone not to tell Harry so he could make his own decision in what he wanted to do instead of doing what his dad did (though he wanted to be an Auror anyways).
Maybe that's one of the reasons that Prof M. was so keen on helping harry become an auror, besides that annoying 'umbridge woman' haha
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Post by The Private Eye on Sept 4, 2005 13:15:35 GMT -5
I dont believe James nor Lily were aurors. IF they were, Harry would have found out somehow, we all know that. No matter how hard people tried to keep it from him.
i think they workd in the DoM as unspeakables. It would explain why we've heard NOTHING of their jobs yet in the books, and also would explain why JK is being so secretive about it. DoM was a big part of the book, so discovering them as being Unspeakables would fit perfectly.
Theres also the room that Harry couldn't go into when he was there. A mystery. I think it was a room that studied the mystery of Love, and Lily possibly worked there. Maybe that's how she knew that sacrificiing her own life would save Harry's. This is all just a theory, however...though I do remember chatting aobut it for awhile with someone on another place but i forget where...but that's my theory.
Cause Unspeakables must be paid well, what with the jobs they are doing.
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Post by alexa on Sept 5, 2005 11:37:34 GMT -5
hmm i dunno about their jobs...i mean JK only told us they were in the DA...but we also know they were known! (remember book1) "no...not the potters" oh well it just let me the impression that they were really popular and all..probablly because of Dumbledore.. and i jsut got a new idea about all the money Harry had..altough Hagrid said 'you didn't think your parents would leave you without nothing now would ya?' (or something like that) any wizard would be glad to help the Boy-Who-Lived right?...see where i'm headin here? altough i trust Hagrid so lol probablly it was their parents James and Lily were smart! and you can do anything with smartness  |
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Post by renor faer on Sept 5, 2005 20:15:34 GMT -5
yeah i see your point..people could have just given him money..but i think that if tha thad been the case JK would have hinted more towards that than towards whatever Harry's parents did
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