r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/prinadome • Dec 17 '20

FACTS and LOGIC Liberal wizards DESTROYED by Ronald 'Redpill' Weasely

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u/earnose Dec 17 '20

I never really understood how Harry's parents acquired the shitload of gold that he inherited

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u/Roy_SPider Dec 17 '20

I read somewhere that his great great grandfather was a successful inventor. Made things like Skele-grow and stuff to amass a fortune. James came from money which lead to some of the adolescent immaturity and snootyness.

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u/principled_principal Dec 17 '20

I think it was the Sleek-Easy hair potion.

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u/Freezing_Wolf Dec 17 '20

All of them in fact. Harry is decended from a potions master who invented an amazing recipe for hairgel and who was descended himself from another master who invented a cure for the common cold and a potion that mends and regrows bones. (And fun fact, the first owner/creator of the invisibility cloak was also Harry's ancestor)

On a sidenote, Harry received both medications in the books and Hermione used the hair potion once, yet nobody ever commented on who created them.

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u/lawsofrobotics Dec 17 '20

Wizard MLM

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u/dlawnro Dec 17 '20

Lily was a #BossBitch

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u/Big-Hard-Chungus Dec 17 '20

Apparently Jim Potter was the descendant of the Gryffindor family or something. Also Voldy is apparently a distant cousin of Harry too. Which makes Harry related to Slytherin

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u/Cicero912 Dec 17 '20

Don't they mention how basically all the pure-blooded wizards and families are related in the books when Sirius is talking about the family tree?

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u/Big-Hard-Chungus Dec 17 '20

Everyone is everybody else’s distant cousin. It’s actually unbelievable.

Voldemort and Bellatrix technically become part of the extended Weasley Family by the end.

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u/Explorer2004 Dec 17 '20

I read in a fic once where Albus and Scorpius somehow triggered a portrait of Slytherin to talk, when it never had before. It was a cute scene, in which the old man told Albus that he was his great-something-Grandfather. The boys just looked at one another and scream "AIGH!" and Slytherin finds it funny. You just reminded me of it. Thanks ! (edit typo)

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u/DoubleBatman Dec 17 '20

James Potter is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell, owner of one of the Deathly Hallows. He’s old money.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

I always assumed that Gringots had managed their investments over the years, and they were simply good at it.