In some stories, a bounty is placed on Tom and Harry is the recipient. Also, in thanks people gift Harry a lot as a reward, or simply lplace him in their will.
It is commonly believed the first war destroyed numerous whole families. So since the pure bloods are all inter related, who inherits?

 

Never understood why a wizard can't conjure up a shit load of dollar bills, deposit in a bank, and go to a different branch and withdraw real bills and then convert them to gold in Gringotts. Sounds simple enough, the goblins shouldn't catch on because they're receiving real cash and not conjured stuff. I guess the Muggles could realize if millions/billions of dollars are deposited and then disappear, but what can they do really? I'm sure it's easy enough for a wizard to set up a fake ID. Or to make it all even simpler, just fraud the lottery over and over again.

 

I don't think there are a lot of these because !BrokeHarry is something that's usually only brought up in passing to reinforce a !StupidPotters trope. Harry actually taking steps to rectify being broke instead of complaining doesn't occur to these authors.

 

Ok this topic brought up a half remembered story that I can't pin down.

It was a slytherin!Harry fic where he was friends with Draco and Zambini. There was something about a private room in the dorms that Harry let Draco get and something about them not becoming like their fathers. And I think they were planning to start a business as well

It might have even been a DLP fic, but I have had no luck with the tag search.

Anyone remember something like that?

 

There are a couple problems with this.

First; it is fanon that Gringotts exchanges muggle currency for wizard currency. What are Goblins going to do with muggle currency?

Second; Muggles would notice millions/billions of dollars being removed from circulation, there are entire governmental agency's whose sole purpose is to take care of the national currency (U.S. Department of the Treasury). As for 'but what can they do really?', well, they can investigate! Which would cause a lot of problems for the MoM, as they would have to go and oblivate/compulsion charm a lot of people.

This brings us to point three: the MoM aren't idiots (probably). If the MoM has a Department of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts, it is not a stretch to think that they would have a Misuse of Muggle Currency Department; this department would prevent magical manipulation of the muggle currency and prosecute wizards who try.

Tl;dr
Magical Counter-fitting/Fraud is probably more difficult than it seems. Also, it is illegal and immoral, just like real life Counter-fitting/Fraud.

 

So I'm not sure if you'd be into this, but there's a next generation story where Scorpius accidentally creates a crime syndicate. It's very campy and fun at times with hints of anger before the main problem is realized. It takes the style of a criminal who was caugh telling his story to an auror. I really liked it but I'm not sure if this site really cares for next generation Fics. The story is I solemnly swear I am up to no good by mouse and stupid productions.

 

Death Before Dishonour

 

Yep that's it. Shame that the author abandoned that. It could have been great.

 

In some stories, Harry recieves an inheritance from tom, as he is the closest thing he has to an heir, or he was the one who defeated him. I love the idea of Harry getting his loot, or spending it to help people.

 

Because of this thing called economics

 

How do muggleborns get money, then?

 

You're right to assume I wouldn't be into that, lol.

I barely tolerate 1-7 canon as it is, everything past that?

Eeeh, not for me...

 

So I looked this up, and I was wrong. Apparently Gringotts does exchange muggle currency, (according to Interview canon, so whatever).

 

Not just interview canon, but book 2:

In a way it doesn't really matter why Wizards don't conjure muggle money. They don't and that's it.

If you look too close at the economic situation of the wizarding world, you'll notice too many little and huge questions which JKR never addressed.

 

There all these stories about Harry inheriting stuff from his parents or other magic folk. Did he ever get anything from the Evans grandparents?

 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9822874/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Return-of-Heritage

This is the first part there is a second book in the making

 

There's was this funny crack fic where James and lily were famous thieves, and hermione and Harry carried on the legacy. Publicly, the potters were a family famed for building and creating the best wards. Secretly, the potters would go on a crime spree every so often to encourage the rich of the wizarding world, to continually update and improve their wards, by hiring the potters again and again.
The thing is James was a huge prankster, so I could see him using those impulses and the family cloak, to go after the homes of death eaters. So save prisoners, spy on bad guys, steal their resources.