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why didnt they just use the spell on it where if it gets moved it doubles. like how the gold things all multiplied when they had to break into the bank to find the horcrux

they would refuse his charity everytime pretty much, and he knew that.

weasleys are simple and great people. They don't need anything more they have, that is why they're so good with others

Duh, because they're friends.

Harry offered to lend/give them money on more than one occasion and they turned him down. Harry DID however give his winnings from the Tri-Wizard Tournament to Fred and George under the guise of "investing" in their plans for a magic shop.

@@DC-ih5xb he kinda was actually but not in a bad way, i think in the books you can see it better while in the movies he's a bit too serious imo.

Technically it's also possible that the Blacks married the Potters due to their wealth rather than the other way around. Both families are rich and powerful, but we have to remember this was a time that often daughters were often pushed by parents to marry someone of the same, or higher status as them. While there is no denying there were financial benefits, the main reason why it happened not once, but twice was mainly due to those particular characters being insistent on staying with only purebloods. All pureblood families have some form of inbreeding in their line.

Where in their linage did the Potters marry into the Black family?

@@elephant35e Charlus Potter married Dorea Black (who's grandfather was Phineas Nigellus Black). Not sure what the relationship of Charlus Potter was to James. But Charlus was the great uncle of Sirius Black.

@@elephant35e Off the top of my head the only one that comes to mind is Charlus Potter and Dorea Black. On Pottermore even though it mentions only Harry's direct line, on the actual Black tree it shows Charlus Potter on it showing there are more than one Potter line that exists. It all started with seven lines originally (7 is a repeated number in HP in general). Edit: Oop someone already explained for me.

Dont forget that the Potter invented Skele-Grow and Sleep Easies Hair Potion.

Don't need to presume it. Dumbledore tells Harry that exact thing in book six when he goes to pick Harry up at his aunt and uncles. Dumbledore tells Harry that Sirius adds a considerable amount of gold to his account. And that he also inherited #12 Grimuld place. But that the only way to know for sure was to give Kreacher the house elf an order.

@@fr0stb1ght34 That tidbit would have been nice to have glossed over in the movie for a few seconds. I think movie only fans were wondering why Harry could order Kreacher around in Deathly Hallows after insulting Hermoine.

@@Swearengen1980 Well, I think some adults can figure out a godfather with no other family, but his godchild, would probably leave his inheritance to said godchild. They did a really horrible job explaining certain details such as house elves and other such magical world building factors.

​@@sharky6404 Adults, yes. I was thinking more about the young ones. My tween would absolutely ask why Harry can boss around Kreacher, but not give inheritance a second thought. Little kids wouldn't think twice about either. Although I don't think a movie viewer can blindly assume Harry inherited much from Sirius because in the movie he was portrayed as having been blackballed by the family with his face being blasted from the family tree. Logical deduction from that is that he was also eliminated from the family inheritance.

@@Swearengen1980 Your family can hate you but unless they have the lawyers write you out of the will and specify where everything is going you are still next of kin.

Even if rich having a huge family would eat up the money fast anyways.

Both are wealthy in their own way.

@@basillah7650 well if the members of the family obtained well paying jobs to offset the expenditure than maybe it could work

@@basillah7650 Assuming everyone would just be NEETs not earning anything

@@basillah7650 If they would be able to use up all their money, then they were never considered wealthy in the first place. If a big family is considered wealthy, just assume they have enough money to remain wealthy.

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I wonder what the magical equivalent of a GoFundMe would be? I imagine the magical hospital had some kind of charitable fund for treatment of squibs and klutzes who, like Mundungus Fletcher, were less than solvent, had unreliable magical skills, and lived on the edges between the light and dark. The whole magical economy is an interesting puzzle.

I just figured it was wizard world's version of life insurance along with compounding interest rate spell(similar to the Gemini spell in Bellatrix's vault), hence the green smoke. I assumed the smoke was the spell coming undone with the opening of the door. Then the spell is then redone after a withdrawal or deposit is performed.

The concept of GoFundMe and donating to family on such a large scale is a bit foreign even from those early to late 1900s. To us it seems like the most sensible thing to do, but I tell you, IT IS NOT. The whole charity thing got blown up and embraced to play to people's emotions.

Not necessarily charity. He was viewed as a hero. People don't know how, but they believed Harry to somehow be responsible for the, what they thought at the time was, the end of Voldemort. They may see it more as paying a debt. On another note, hilariously, when I type Voldemort, auto correct changed it to, "Golden off" but there is no issue typing Dumbledore. I can only assume it is auto correct trying to prevent me saying Vol... He who must not be named.

In spite of Harry's short foray into Auroring, and Ginny's into sports, I'd love for them to prove Snape wrong by making some inventions of their own...

This is actually a good point I'd never thought of.

Imagine if the reason Harry survived the killing curse is because of a potion that James and Lily created together and gave to him as a last ditch effort to help save him when they learned that they were on Voldemort's hit-list. A potion made with pure love as an unintentional ingredient. A potion that never became public knowledge because of their deaths.

@@Galiant2010 Good thought.

Um, Lily is not a 'potter' by blood, she's a muggleborn like Hermione. Though Hermione is a lowkey mary sue who knows how to live and think like wizard better than anyone else despite never been in the culture, just be simply 'reading a book'. That is pure nonsense and bad writing. First time I heard of potters being good at potions though.

Snape didn't bully him because Harry was disconnected with his Potter family legacy, but more of a grudge against the 'men' in Potter family because if James was bad, so is his sons. Snape is one of those people who didn't give a damn about Harry's past or what he's been through, nor was Harry's sad childhood even public knowledge till Fourth Year, albeit it was a glimpse.

Probably because if lily had not been with James, she would have been alive with Snape. But since James is dead, he takes it out on harry

@@drakke125Channel Actually Snape was just jealous of Harry's dad.

@@alexandreaanderson514 He was jealous of James, but with Harry, it was a mixture of resentment and a twisted sort of affection - he was the son of the man who made his youth utterly garbage and married the girl he loved, but he was also Lily's son, which transferred a degree of protectiveness onto him. IIRC Dumbledore even outright says that Snape's decisions were, more than anything, directed by his desire to protect Harry - even though he immensely disliked him as a person.

I know it isnt that but it would be fun if it were true

Because he only had access to it while at school and he grew up with nothing, so its not a direction his mind automatically goes. Sorta out of sight, out of mind.

Harry did offer to help pay for things, but the Weasleys always declined. Harry remembered he had money, but he also didn’t live like it because he couldn’t always access it. He was always at Hogwarts, or his relatives for 90% of the year. Not many chances to go to the bank. And sadly, Gringotts did not have debit cards lol

@@Bballfan1992 Or credit cards. Otherwise Harry should have a Gringotts Black Card!

being raised by the Dursley's Harry was a slave and he also saw how wealth ruined his cousin. Greedy mean brat. The Dursley's were spoiling their child and they would lick the boots of others to get higher up... so having wealth looked ugly to Harry.

He would offer to pay for the Weasleys expenses, but they would refuse I think it's even highlighted in the Chamber of Secrets, they won't accept his cash.

This, I think, is the best answer for this video. Everything else is just specifics. I really do rather enjoy this series. Maybe I'll start a reread sometime...

Umm most likely the biggest portion of possessions goes to eldest children and the youngest children inherited immense of fortune as well, it wasn't just as big as the eldest children

I think there were more than one invisibility cloak, the were extremly rare but there wasn't only one.

​@@alezy7645 There are none that are even close to as good as Harry's and the enchantment on others doesn't last long. This is mentioned a bunch of times. Harry's is perfect invisibility, even magic can't see through it.

@@ihaveacar Besides Moody's eye, apparently. Whatever charm that eye has needs to be replicated... And I know Ron says all that about the typical cloaks, but I did get the impression that there were other really good cloaks out there, too.

Harry wasnt really that bad at potions, Snape just made him not want the classes. Hard to do well in a class with a teach you hate and it be reciprocated.

Harry was actually really good with potions. In the sorcerers stone, he solves Snape's potion puzzle by himself. Even though Snape doesn't like Harry, he is still forced to give him an Excellent on the exams.

@@DraconisX86 hermione solved the logic riddle

Harry was good enough at potions that, when he no longer had Snape as his teacher, he was able to take full advantage of his good luck in finding the half-blood prince's potion book. It's ironic that they were actually the same person. Harry could have learned so much from Snape if Snape hadn't let his hatred of James Potter get in the way.

To be fair it didn’t help that his teacher was Snape who practically hates him (if he didn’t then he sure acted like it)because of his dad.

Malfoy has significantly more wealth than Harry will ever have. It's made clear in the books their family made their wealth through not so legal ways. Thats why in Harry's vault there were piles of coins, in Bellatrix's there were mountains. The Malfoy's are one of the richest families in the wizarding world. At least in England.

@@DaleHammersIII That's not the point. Malfoy also has parents. Point is, many of the actual personal struggles and opportunities they have to overcome/pursue, can be easily solved with the wealth they both possess. When Draco gets things that aid him, like his high-spec broom, it's mainly because he represents the Malfoy name and thus he gets the best equipment to do so. On the other hand, whenever Harry gets anything it's because the people around him genuinely care for him and he has earned their affection through his inner worth, not his inherited wealth. Draco is a stark contrast, and I just feel like the fact that they're both immensely wealthy and well within the top 0.1% goes a long way to help establish this difference between them. Draco boasts of his family name, wealth, and influence. Harry seemingly forgets he even has money -despite having more than enough to live luxuriously for the rest of his life.

This is also how I thought about it. He’s a rich kid who’s down to earth and never flaunts his wealth. Malfoy takes every opportunity to flaunt it. It’s funny how bad Rowling’s actual explanation is in comparison.

@@Real_MisterSir The reason Harry isn't constantly aware of it is that he doesn't really get to use it - he knows it as a fact, but he doesn't experience it. Meanwhile Draco grew up surrounded by it.

Wouldn't be surprised if Dumbledore didn't count on Harry's upbringing under the Dursleys to ultimately humble and build what Dumbledore found to be one of the most important aspect to his character and contrast to Voldemort. Perfectly opposing everything Voldemort stood for.

Well, the one thing the books never addressed after the war that always bugged me is PTSD. I guarantee you every single person, but especially the children raised to be soldiers had it. No way we're their lives perfect.

@@katholmes7112 perhaps one day we'll get a sequel, perhaps 20 years from the last harry potter film to account for the actors age. how they deal with what happened in their youth and possibly bringing in a new age of harry potter shows with the main characters kids

@@katholmes7112 most people don’t develop PTSD even after a traumatic experience like the war.

@@kokofan50 You’d be surprised how many people around the world have PTSD...

@@cfrandre8319 no, I wouldn’t. Traumatic events happen all the time, but most people are able to process them. If helps if you have a strong social network and encouraged to be resilient rather than focusing on the trauma. The English speaking world has been especially good at the latter.

honestly a lot of the 'backstory' and rowling writing are stuff I find to be rather skeptical of, a lot of it was prob just added much later given how poorly setup the mechanics of magic was at the start. Things like wandless and incantation-less magic hasn't really been sufficiently or fully explained yet, at least from what I've seen so far but there's always a chance there's 'new lore' I may have missed, but this stuff we're learning are outside of the main school year books.

@@drakke125Channel I would think that wands and incantations help to focus and amplify the magic, but a powerful experienced witch or wizard can do without both as the magical ability resides within the person, not the wand. Elves can do magic without such assistance.

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What’s more is that Fleamont made the Sleakeasy’s Hair Potion! Snape didn’t use it out of spite for the Potters, so his hair remained greasy AF!

Don't think it works like that champ lol

@@firesideshats Maybe, but seeing how the Goblins are, it wouldn't surprise me if they were investing some of that money and giving back a little of their ROI(like every bank does)

Also donations for wee Harry must have flown in from people saddened by their heroic death!

Does money sitting in wizard banks earn interest? It would have been sitting in Gringot's for like 10-15 years or so? Plenty of time for interest to acrue.

Maybe Voldemort had a bounty on his head?

I like your train of thought here!

Harry isn’t the only person who lost loved ones though, what about Molly? She lost her brothers and a son.. does she not deserve “fines and restitution payments” too? There’s likely many more who’d, at least in my opinion, be more deserving of it than Harry. The Death Eaters who were from the Sacred 28 would have nothing left quicker than you can say Quidditch if they had to make payments to all of the families they wronged 🤷‍♂️

@@AwesomeGingersFtw Yes, I definitely agree. That's why I added "Or divided it up among the other victims" and said that maybe the Death Eaters who didn't get into trouble paid off the Ministry and portions of those payoffs were divided among Voldemort's victims. I focused more of the Harry aspect of it because that was the video topic, but I 100% agree with you that all the victims would deserve to be included in this. 😊 When I initially thought of this, the Lestranges and Barty Crouch, Jr. paying restitution to Neville's family is who came to my mind first, because being tortured to the point that you don't know who you are or who your son is seems like it would be worse than death. And the torture they endure to get to that point? I can't even imagine. They definitely deserve something, and I would certainly hope that someone besides the Longbottom family is paying for their lifelong stay and care in the Janus Thickey Ward. I'm not sure if other families would accept any payments though. I think alot of them would look at it as "dirty Death Eater money" and not want to accept it. I feel like Molly (as a former Prewett), and the rest of the Weasleys are a very proud family and would consider accepting money from the government (or anyone) to be charity, even if they were payments of restitution for their loss and suffering. They're poor, but proud. I know in the books when Harry gave Fred and George his Twiwizard winnings he had to tell them to take it as a an investment for them to open up their joke shop. I always picture the old families as having more money than they know what to do with. Generations upon generations just hoarding money and making shady business deals and bribing people to aquire more money and investing it...maybe I've just read too many fan fics though 🤷🏻‍♀️ I mean, Lucius Malfoy has pet peacocks wandering around! To me, that's a ridiculously rich person thing. I don't necessarily think they'd have to do individual payments to each family (because yeah, that would be a lot of money!), unless they directly affected said family (the Lestranges torturing the Longbottoms, for example). I can't remember how much restitution my friends grandmother got from a robbery. I know it was a few thousand dollars from each person involved though. It would be reasonable to think that they could charge each family member involved a percentage of their assets and divide it up among the victims...depending on how much money each person has in their legal account vs how much they have hidden away, it might not add up to much! 😹

@@sarahlynn4721 yeah I thought of Neville too seeing as he had to grow up with his parents not even knowing who he is, can’t even begin to imagine what that would be like. I just don’t see how it’d realistically be enforced and even if it was, as you quite rightly pointed out, many of the families wouldn’t want the money anyway seeing as it’s coming from Death Eaters. There’s absolutely no way in hell Molly would take a penny from Lucius for example even if it was to be revealed he was part of the group that attacked her brothers. She’d rather justice be served and he rots in Azkaban. That’s not to say that no one would take restitution payments but I just feel like the Death Eaters, more specifically any who had family wealth, caused too much grief to far too many people for them to feasibly pay them back without it resulting in it being a pittance due to the amount of people they wronged. Maybe a one time overall “fine” type thing based on the severity of their crimes to be paid to the ministry for them to then disperse to services such as St.Mungo’s? Idk. Paying the surviving family members just doesn’t seem like it’d work out all that well to me given that there’d likely be a *lot* of them.

@@sarahlynn4721 I bet the wizarding insurance documents look very different from our muggle ones. 😂

Now I just imagine Harry filing an AD&D claim to the Ministry after Voldemort is dead again. And then a convoluted process of ministry claim analysts trying to confirm the destruction of all horcruxes and the finality of Voldemort's death and researching his parents "apparent loss of life and/or limb" in the process and details of said claims between the time of his parents' deaths and him finally filing the claim after he's old enough and Voldemort is dead. Basically, I'm just imagining Harry dealing with insurance in the wizarding world, which has to be bonkers. "Mr. Potter, we have only received the coroner's report for one, James Potter. Please send an owl with a notarized coroner's report from the district of Godric's Hollow for one, Lily Potter, dated 1 November 1981, immediately. Please also include all documents and postage relayed after said reapportionment of your estate after the inheritance of House Black but prior to your coming of age at 17 to determine your total estate at the time of the event filed which we have determined to be a period of 16 years. Kindly, The Department of Overt Pedantry and Incredibly-Precise Completion Ministry of Magic London, England"

I was thinking that too. Plus James would have inherited his parents' wealth. And on top of that, if wizard banking is like muggle banking, there's 11 years of compounding interest because nobody's making any withdrawals until Harry goes to Hogwarts.

Yes, this! As soon as Voldemort starts hunting me, I sign up for term life insurance.

Or maybe because it was war, the insurance companies wouldnt insure them.

I still think Sirius should have been kept alive in the books / movies so Harry had at least SOME living family in the wizarding world.

Harry has a lot of living relatives. He's literally related to every pureblood family, even the Weasleys long before he married Ginny. Arthur's mother was a Black. He's a second cousin or something to Draco. He's related to Neville. He's related to Andromeda Tom's even before becoming Teddy's godfather. Heck, if we knew who Dean Thomas's biological father was he might be related to Dean.

@@TianarTruegard The Weasleys are just as much family as Sirius. Harry technically wasnt related to Sirius either. JK at first was going to kill Mr. Weasley, but decided Harry needed him as a proper father figure. Sirius would be many things to Harry, but a father figure he was incapable of being. In Sirius's head, Harry was nothing more than a replacement for James.

@@TianarTruegard Ikr?

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Sirius didnt really have the Black fortune though, his money was from a rich uncle and self made. While he added a good chunk to it, Sirius himself wasnt terribly rich compared to the rest of the Blacks.

@@DaleHammersIII we never actually know what happened to the Black fortune. We do know they were rich, and I’m sure some dowry was paid out to Malfoy and Lestrange for Narcissa and Bellatrix. But everyone else is dead, and what they did isn’t known. We don’t know if the Black vault, like Grimmauld, stayed to the next male, which was Sirius after his brother died. It’s wholly possible the main Black fault stayed in the family, most like patriarchal, and was ultimately left to Harry. Dromeda was cast out completely, and as a woman, it’s most likely she would not have received anything. It would be interesting to find out where the whole Black fortune went.

@@Bballfan1992 Andromeda was an outcast from the Black family but wasn’t there a dotty but wealthy old aunt somewhere, who kept Tonks and her mother relatively comfortable (they could never show they were all right) after Ted Tonks died? And Andromeda raised Tonks and Lupin’s son after they died...

@@cfrandre8319 I’m not sure. I don’t remember reading about an old aunt helping Andy, so I can’t say for sure. Definitely possible. But yeah, Andy definitely lost any access to the Black vault. Their way of life was very Victorian era, with patriarchal succession. I’m sure it was supposed to go to Regulus, but ended up with Sirius as I don’t think any Black family leader would let old tradition die that hard, and give it all away to strangers, or give it to another family through marriage and let the Black fortune disappear after all the generations of wealth added to it.

Wasn't Black disowned from the family? Can you seriously still own property that would normally be passed down to you when your face/name is stricken from family tree record??? How did people miss this????

Given that it’s a sealed vault, and not a “fictional concept that exists only as a number in a ledger” I suspect Gringots doesn’t do interest. Just super secure storage.

@@blackmoon8459 Gringots has to make money somewhere, even if only enough to pay their employees. Most likely they would have something like a CD, where a wizard invests a sum of money for a fixed amount of time, and cannot withdraw that money. Gringots can then loan that money out at interest, and when the CD reaches maturity they the deposit the principle plus some of the interest earned back into the investor's vault.

@@WombatDave I think Goblins just enjoy, sort of feed off the wealth of Gringotts.

@@WombatDave Would you not just pay for the vault (i.e. renting it) which could vary depending on how much space is needed, and in extreme cases, the security (I believe someone from the black family (or someone allied with voldemort) had a dragon protecting theirs.)

He's not bad though. If snape hadn't made him lose interest, he would probably somewhat aced the class.

If Snape had treated him as Lily's son in general instead of just times of danger (I blame James' face) the result during potion classes would have always been what it finally became in year 6.

I also think he did poorly because of Snape, not because he was bad at potions.

Based

Not with a rampaging dark wizard killing everyone.

@@DaleHammersIII yeah thats true, never thought about that. would have been nice for it to have been mentioned though lol

It also makes me wonder about his grandparent's siblings (if they have any) and their kids which could've been around Harry's parents ages. It's hard to believe that Petunia is the only other relative he has out there🤔 but for the sake of the book and plot it makes sense, plus Petunia is the closest blood relative to him

And they were alive when James was at Hogwarts because Sirius mentions spending the summer holidays at the Potter’s because he hated being at home.

I imagine that they were one of the casualties of Voldy's rampage.

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It's ironic that Harry's grandfather invented Sleekeazy, and that Harry had unruly dark hair. 😆

@@katherinemurphy2762 Not ironic at all, maybe. Since Harry and his dad both had unruly hair, you can bet that Fleamont had the same issue. So of course he created a potion for it. He may have even forced James to use it (when James was at home, anyway).

21 was an unusual age choice. The movie change was good

Exactly. To Harry, what was more important was he used whatever resources including money to get what he wanted, but he only did that when it applied to his friends like the Weasleys. He did not spend massive gold for himself, only when he's being thoughtful to others with buying the cart of snacks/sweets on the Hogwarts Express and the winning Triwizard money to the Weasley twins. Outside of that, he hasn't been seen doing any wasteful spending. Anyone can easily see Harry actually values his friendships with others far more than material things, this is especially the case with growing up with an abusive family and without his blood parents, to the point where McGonagall was almost his second aunt/mother (just a little bit). However that would have been inappropriate and out of place. Harry also did not discriminate people based on their Houses. The Cursed Child garbage of a book made him out to be a stereotypical racist white man (according to toxic woke people), in which he took issue with his son we see in the end of the last book and movie, asking about being placed in Slytherin. in Contrast with Cursed child, Harry in original books/movies had no qualms and felt pride if his son went to Slytherin because he found beaming respect for Severus Snape. That says a lot about Harry's character. Not to mention Harry got along well with Slughorn, and probably had normal conversations with at least one or two other Slytherin students he came across throughout his school life.

@@drakke125Channel I mean the tri-wizard winnings could justly be Investing in his friends business venture

Isn't he also pondering on his living cost when he stays a bit longer in the The Leaky Cauldron? I allways thought that he had alot of money for a child, but only because he never needed to care about living expenses

In reality, Harry had no way of knowing because the price was only given when the buyer asked and Harry, without having the facts, pessimistically assumed that it would cost him most of his money without having any real proof.

I know right. It's crazy that she was poor, depressed and a single mother. Now she's one of the wealthest authors of all time and a household name known worldwide. Just goes to show what can happen.

Maybe he used engorgio spell on his junk.

@@1COMIXMAN Yeah maybe.

Technically he did have distant relatives from the Potter side, but in order to renew the protection of his mother's sacrifice, he needed to stay with his mother's relatives (i.e., Aunt Petunia) and call it "home". Although Petunia is likely to have very distant relatives, I would not be surprised if the magical protection was only strong enough to protect Harry if he stayed with a close relative.

My take on this is Harry learning about being a wizard just adds to the confusion. Surely, he's happy, because finally there is an explanation to some weird things he's been experiencing for the past years, but he's got tons of things to worry about. Dursleys do not support him one bit (they hate him actually), he's totally unfamiliar with what the wizarding world is actually like, he is afraid of what will happen with him at this new weird school, he might as well still be afraid that all this is just some mean, sophisticated joke playing out on him. So I guess, Rowling just wanted to take that money factor out of the equation for the little guy. Also, kind of funny when Harry becomes the youngest seeker, the school (if I remember correctly - probably McGonagall and Dumbledore pull some budget strings) goes out of its way to buy him a brand new, just released, model of exclusive broom. Talk about privilege - and Harry is one of the few children at school that could actually afford it himself. And Ron, three books later, has to suffer the shame of wearing some worn down, broke-ass retro robe for the ball - "I can buy you a new one, mate, I got you, it's the least I can do."

I actually like this idea. He spent his life in the muggle world being told that his parents were losers, and so was he. And then as soon as he entered the wizarding world, all contextual clues were telling him that his parents were in fact very respectable. And seeing that they were prosperous and well off would be a good way to show Harry that his family and heritage was something to take pride in and be proud of. I don't care if it was wish fulfillment by JKR. Your spin on it makes an extremely good case for why it worked as storytelling.

@bennitori4 great writing leaves up for many interpretation of the story. She had this story down. Just wish fantasic beasts had similar quilty. My only change to his character is him being a pro quidditch star and face off against Krum for the world cup to end it wearing his dad's number and having something to memorialize his mom along with everyone voldy killed with his family and friends there to cheer them in the best seats in the house with Harry smiling holding up his kids and the trophy that was renamed after Dumbledore. He'd have earned some of his fame, validation by the wizardry world, and recognized. Probably a dream come true for him especially after his childhood, and teenage years got ruined.

@@bobhanson1037 Pretty sure the moment he killed Voldemort he had all the fame and recognition he would ever need by the wizarding world.

Harry was not a brilliant potion maker like Lily, but he was never a bad one either. Harry exams grades where always reasonable good and there where several instances during the series where he would brew a good potion only for Snape to either give him an underseved low grade or just blantly sabotage it. This made Harry hate the class, because he new there was no point in making an effort. If Harry had a proper teacher from the start he would probably be just below Hermione in the class.

He was not bad at potions.... He recieved an "Exceeds Expectations" on his OWL exam which is the 2nd highest grade you can get.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Plus Fred & George were Loaded

💯 despite what the rabid feminist and lgbt people say

Because: reasons. Using muggle money on that scale for “off the books” transactions and maintain secrecy would have been impossible. They would have had to integrate into the muggle economy completely and allow the central bank to steer monetary policy for the wizarding world (which they would have to understand) as well as the muggle world. They would also have had to find ways for the money to circulate back because they would issue currency but wizards transact with each other and don’t buy muggle goods (think phones and computers) and services, if they didn’t do that prices would keep going down in the muggle world (relative to the money becoming more scarce and therefore more valuable) people would produce less delay big purchases and unemployment would be out of control, it would have been very tricky. Also imagine being a wizard and borrowing money for a £5000 flying broomstick😂😂😂. They wizarding world Is very behind when it comes to science and technology and banking is based on advanced algorithms and computation . No wizarding bank could compete with muggle banks when it comes to arbitrage, risk management etc

The muggle’s were hated by half of the wizarding world. Hated to the degree that countless wars had broken out over the years concerning going to war against them. So, a change in currency would not be possible. Also, magic can replicate/duplicate non-magical objects. Wizard currency must be magical as poor/broke wizards exist.

​ @John Adams You've got half my theory correct in that wizards could probably replicate muggle money. But what's to prevent them from replicating muggle money and then converting them to wizard money at a wizarding bank? After all, the book does mention that there is a currency exchange between the two currencies.....

@@bobbytheitguy4289 Perhaps the Wizarding banks and only the Wizarding banks can detect duplicated currencies? That would fit as goblins are known to be able to detect counterfeits. The goblin topic does bring up another angle of why the Wizarding world has a separate currency. If the wizards choose to adopt human currency, the goblins would loose their purpose and rebel again.

@@Veritas-invenitur Bingo...That's my theory. Wizard currency cannot be counterfeited because goblins can detect fakes, as Griphook said about the Sword of Gryffindor

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Literally Mac, Harry was related to EVERYONE in the wizarding world and never should have been raised by the Dursleys. This was Dumbledore wanting total control over Harry and had nothing to do with Lily's sacrifice. In fact I have a theory that I believe I can prove that the sacrificial love didn't actually exist but Dumbledore said it did so Harry'd be under his thumb.

James Potter was born when his parent's were actually a bit older and was a only child. So this means that pretty much his relatives were deceased before he was born, or died when he was growing up. His parent's died probably before Harry was born I believe. Harry was literally the only living person left on his dad's side, after James and Lily died.

@@katholmes7112 interesting

@@kaouther333 Well not exactly like James’s Dad was raised by his Uncle Charlus Potter And Aunt Dorea Black.

He isnt terrible but he is no genius like his ancestors in potions

@@shaneharun9571 I'm sure the fact that he hated his potion teacher for a pretty long time didn't help his lack of natural aptitude.

He achieved an 'E' in his Potion OWLs which showcases that despite setbacks (Snape, lack of passion for the subject, not studying) he performed above-average. This is what he achieved in Transfiguration, Charms and Herbology as well. And I remember McGonagall saying she was pleased with Harry's Transfiguration OWL, which means getting an E is an achievement. I wouldn't say that he wasn't good at Potions as a result.

Why would that necessarily be a hereditary trait though? My grandparents on both sides were farmers and factory workers who could barely sign their own name and my mom is an economics professor and my dad a doctor, this whole idea that you inherit intelligence or specific skills has arisen from the prevalence of nepotism and the influence of generational wealth on people's chances in life, my parents were lucky to live in a European country that provided them with an equal chance at education.

Harry did help out, indirectly with Ron's dress robes. He forced Fred and George to take his Tri-Wizard winnings. He asked them to do him a favor by buying Ron some new dress robes.

Not sure which part but I do remember him thinking about that in the books, but the Weasley's wouldn't just take it. Even the tri-wizard winnings, the twins were very hesitant on taking it. But the source this time is different. If that money came from his vault, I believe the twins will never take it no matter how desperate they are.

@@MyAccount-mh9mf The twins insisted Harry become part owner, was the only way they'd take it. They would take an investment, but not a hand-out. Which is another addition to Harry's fortune as well lol. Their store became ridiculously prosperous.