It would be interesting to see a Harry who IS an above-competent businessman. Pounds-to-galleons-to-dollars and back, making a profit. That would be different.

 

But would that be dark?

"I made a comfortable living currency-trading, but I made my big break when I rolled my galleons into commodities. Unfortunately, my aggressive speculation on oil futures caused a contagion in major business circles which, in turn, caused oil to rise in price by up to twenty dollars a barrel." - Dark Lord Potter

 

Taking the price of gas these days, it would be Dark!Harry, robbing people of their money... And, as oil is used for pretty much everything...

 

I seem to recall a fic where Hermione's dad helped him with that and he used the Galleon to Pound ratio to make some serious cash. Other than that I don't remember a damned thing about the fic. Probably got shitty later and made it onto my do not remember list.

 

I'm actually running out of peeves. We might have gotten all of them. Someone should feed this thread and the Potter Laws into a machine, and build the perfect HP series.

H/Hr, or H/L of course.

 

QFT...
Harry/Luna For the win!! <3

 

Blasphemy. We will never run out of peeves.

Today's peeve: That bank scene.

You know the scene. Harry Potter goes to Gringotts and finds out that he has a billion vaults full of treasure and weapons and the writer is, of course, obligated to tell you everything about each vault and what's inside and the history of the vaults and their contents and the history of the enchantments used to protect them. Then Harry receives between two and fifteen house rings which the writer is, of course, obligated to expound upon to the point of relating the histories of each house and the enchantments each ring carries. It is at this point Harry finds that Dumbledore has been taking liberties with his trust fund at which the writer, OF COURSE, must explain in detail exactly which individuals Harry bars from his accounts and the means by which he does so. Finally, Harry has a good, long chat about bottomless wallets and wizarding debit cards with Griphook who for some reason is now very respectful and great friends with the wonderful Mr. Potter.


Why exactly does Dumbledore need Harry's money, anyway? He's from a powerful pureblood family, is Order of Merlin A+++, and runs the most prestigious school in the region. Wouldn't the Potter fortune be a pittance compared to his own?

 

These days, I've found any fic including Luna gives me the irrits. Writing Clouds has hammered out a very definite image of her in my mind, and any deviation from it by other authors makes me twitchy.

 

Last year's peeve, actually. Been there, done that, read a parody about it.

 

Obscenely wealthy Harry has recently become a pet peeve of mine.

This, and a lack of basic understanding of economics, especially the canon wizarding economy, which while somewhat fucked up, is better than what most fanfic authors can come up with.

I was reminded of this while trying my damndest not to click out of Knowledge is Power by Serpent Sannin.

In the fic it explicitly says the Malfoys have over 1 billion galleons, which is just ridiculous. With what we can infer from canon, if the Malfoys were indeed this wealthy, they would possess something like 98% of the money in circulation in wizarding Brittain.

And then of course we have Harry, who by ch. 17, is stated to have 90 million galleons himself. Of course it wasn't enough for Harry to be an insanely powerful, animagus-at-6 quidditch star, the author had to go and make him obscenely wealthy as well.

Jesus fucking Christ. If you are going to write a fic, at least research the various prices of things and the basic information we know about the canon wizarding economy, so you don't end up looking like an ignorant fool.

 

And you of course could bare in mind that KiP is one of the very few fics that has Harry that rich for a reason...as you would know if you had actually read it.

 

Sadly no. After Albus' death they had found he wasted the family fortune on an extensive collection of gay porn.

 

At least he died happy. And erect.

 

I suspect that he had achieved his goal during the climactic scene. He arranged for his most loyal servant, his favored grandchild, and the son of one of his most competent enemies to help him reach Rapture.

*sigh*
If only each of us could die during a climax...

 

Couldn't he just use the Room of Requirement to get it for free?

 

The Room of Requirement made stuff can't be taken out of the Room. If you want a wank in the security and comfort of your tub or bed, you have to procure your own research material.

Edited to add:
Oh, yuck. I bet he had visual and auditory (and probably olfactory) recorders in the boys' bathrooms, locker rooms, etc.

I've been reading manipulative!Dumbledore stories, and it's made me cynical. Actually, at his age, maybe he's stopped that sort of thing altogether.

 

I have read up to Ch. 17. Yes, he becomes rich through a poker game, which itself was ridiculous (similar to the poker game in Casino Royale) because the chance of a hand going down like that is something like 300,000 to 1 (watches a lot of poker), and the fact that he is a quidditch god.

Yes, I know he wants the money to cure Lilly, but the author went about it in an extremely stupid way (designed of course to expand Harry's 'coolness' even further) and inflated the wizarding economy immensely for no apparent reason (perhaps ignorance). This is one of my many grievances with this fic, but it is a peeve because many fics are like KIP in this way.