• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The Potters were richer than, say, the Weasleys, but they didn’t have Batman-tier wealth. Harry still had to exercise a certain amount of frugality to ensure that his parent’s savings lasted him through school:

    Once Harry had refilled his money bag with gold Galleons, silver Sickles, and bronze Knuts from his vault at Gringotts, he had to exercise a lot of self- control not to spend the whole lot at once. He had to keep reminding himself that he had five years to go at Hogwarts, and how it would feel to ask the Dursleys for money for spellbooks, to stop himself from buying a handsome set of solid gold Gobstones (a wizarding game rather like marbles, in which the stones squirt a nasty-smelling liquid into the other player’s face when they lose a point).

    - PoA4

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      The frugality to me always sounded like an action of a child who grew up abused, conflicted between the impulse of hording possessions and actually having a degree of autonomy for the first time