Maybe your best friend Harry, with his vault filled with literal piles of gold, can help you out.
And Harry really owed them some money since he would spend some time at their house and sleep/eat for free, he is such a jerk
Also banged their daughter
It is considered impolite to offer money to someone after banging their relative. Assumed pimping is not a good look.
Muggle logic
I mean, he did end up marrying her though, hahaha.
Ron will never pull himself up by his magical bootstraps with that kind of entitlement attitude.
Wizards these days... Nobody wants to do the work transmuting elements into gold anymore.
Sounds like socialism.
The wizarding world is strangely conservative.. for some reason
Yup! They can literally create anything with a wave of their wand, yet they still have poor wizards.
If there weren't poor wizards, there wouldn't be anything for other poor wizards to aspire to be better than
Wizarding prowess seems like a strong motivator. But what do I know? I'm not a crazy yuppy.
Harry's been so 'poor' his life, he probably didn't remember he had a vault until he got a girlfriend.
A girlfriend who is a member of said family
This is the kind of thing that has made the interpretation of Harry Potter as a struggle between old ("good") conservatism vs new ("bad") conservatism really resonate for me. You can think of the wizards as nobility, and muggles as commoners. It's acceptable to buy gifts and stuff for the people who don't really need them, but for the lesser nobility, it would be viewed as a handout and would be really difficult to navigate in a way that allows everyone to save face.
Iirc in the actual lore (not the movies) McGonagall somehow gets access to Harry's Gringotts vault and takes the money for the broom from there. So it's not exactly a gift.
I didn't remember that! Is that actually in the book, or is that some expanded lore thing?
Just recently reread the first book, it's never explained. McGonagall talks to Gryffindor's team captain about what broom they should get for Harry.
Maybe through Hagrid. He seemed to have access.
Makes sense. Would also explain why he doesn't ask Harry to buy him a new wand or candy on from the cart. Harry offered to buy all the candy for himself, and then just split some with Ron. But a wand is pretty important in a Wizarding school, someone should have bought him one lol.
The idea that Ron went a whole school year without a wand is absurd.
It was just a plot element for some funny moments and to have Lockhart blast himself with a spell at the end. I don't think there was any other justification until people started making up defenses after the book came out.
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