![]() Weasley's department The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts handles. The diary is a misuse of a Muggle artifact filled with Dark Arts Magic. The raids that Malfoy is referring to are meant to protect people from exactly the sort of crisis that Riddle's diary provokes. This exchange between Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley sets up the underlying political tension in the book. and I thought your family could sink no lower -” p. Granger, who were watching apprehensively. “We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy,” he said. Weasley flushed darker than either Ron or Ginny. “Dear me, what’s the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don’t even pay you well for it?” He reached into Ginny’s cauldron and extracted, from amid the glossy Lockhart books, a very old, very battered copy of A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration. “Busy time at the Ministry, I hear,” said Mr. ![]() Why wouldn't the reverse be possible? Either this speaks to Muggle intolerance or unawareness of the wizarding world, or it is an inconsistency in the story. The Grangers exchange Muggle money for wizard money at Gringotts (p. For some students, like the Weasleys, this creates unnecessary financial hardship. ![]() His job at Hogwarts is at least in part a scheme to sell books. In this passage, Lockhart, who often appears as comic relief, is shown to take advantage of Hogwarts students in requiring them to buy so many of his textbooks. The same social problems exist for wizards. It also complicates the dichotomy between the mundane and magical worlds for him. His contrasting experience gives Harry a consciousness of inequality. Harry experiences the extremes: pennilessness and powerlessness living with the Dursleys, and an inherited fortune and fame in the wizarding world. One of the themes of the book is social status and the power that it affords. Of course, it was only in the wizarding world that he had money you couldn’t use Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts in Muggle shops. Stored in an underground vault at Gringotts in London was a small fortune that his parents had left him. “Five sets of Lockhart books! And Ginny needs robes and a wand and everything.” “Dunno how Mum and Dad are going to afford all our school stuff this year,” said George after a while. ![]()
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