In fact, most"pure-blood families" with a glamorous appearance are just superficial.
The reason why they only have a glamorous appearance is that they have almost no source of income.
What kind of wealth does a typical pureblood family have? You can refer to the Malfoy family or the Black family.
They own a magnificent and huge manor, usually with a house elf in charge of taking care of it, and they have a collection of antiques, gold and silverware that are hundreds of years old.
They usually have a family vault at the bottom of Gringotts, which contains mountains of gold.
However, the manor is usually their ancestral home, and although it is extremely valuable, it cannot be liquidated at all. House elves cannot be traded. Although antiques may seem priceless, if one day you want to sell them or discount them for cash, you will find that they won't fetch many galleons at all.
And the gold in the vast majority of family vaults will only become less and less as it is consumed from generation to generation.
This gold is often accumulated by the ancestors of pure-blood families over several generations. It may come from the wealth obtained from making alchemical items and refining potions, or it may be the wealth obtained from playing tricks in front of Muggles, or it may even be found in gold. Treasures or gold mines and the like...
But as time goes by, the accumulation of wealth will become more and more difficult.
As Muggles continue to develop, it becomes more and more difficult to obtain wealth from them, especially after the promulgation of the International Statute of Secrecy by the International Confederation of Wizards. Obtaining wealth from Muggles through magic is completely prohibited— -Of course, except for Ye Ting's method, because that is just Muggle-style investment.
With the continuous development of wizarding society and the continuous rise of major magic academies, the pure-blood family's educational monopoly on magic was soon broken. These public education organizations, led by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, brought wizards There is a"Renaissance" in society. The knowledge of spells, alchemy, potions, etc. is constantly being disclosed. Masters of alchemy and potions among mixed-blood wizards are constantly emerging. The number of competitors is increasing. Magic props and potions are The price of alchemy and potions has continued to drop, and pure-blood families can no longer use alchemy and potions to obtain large fortunes.
But in the wizarding world, apart from the production of alchemy, potions and herbal medicines, there are few other industries with sustainable output.
In fact, the wizarding world of Harry Potter has reached a point where material production is extremely rich and can be regarded as reaching the gczy threshold.
Although the magic in the Harry Potter world lacks lethality, it is quite powerful in terms of production and life. This directly results in the most basic survival resources such as food, water, clothing, etc. becoming quite cheap.
Of course, this isn't entirely due to Transfiguration.
In fact, there are five major exceptions to Gamp's basic rule of transfiguration: food, magic items, magical creatures, non-existent entities, and concepts without concrete form. These five exceptions are beyond the reach of Transfiguration.
However, magic can achieve this in other ways.
In terms of food, magic can turn a small amount of food into a large amount. The most typical ones are magnification spells and copying spells. It can also make crops grow faster and larger, and can bring a bumper harvest to barren farmland. Even Hagrid is not good at it. A magical wizard can use a puffing spell to make his pumpkin grow taller than an adult.
Not to mention water, a water-making spell can solve all problems.
In terms of clothing, furniture and even residences, it is quite convenient to manufacture them through magic. Controlling the movement of matter itself is the most basic magic method. The transformation spell is also very effective in manufacturing these daily necessities.
Some skilled wizards can even simplify the complex process of making a certain piece of furniture or a certain dish into a short spell. That is to say, as long as the raw materials are available and the corresponding spell is known, even a British witch who has never been in the kitchen can You can also complete a portion of Kung Pao Chicken. In fact, in the wizarding world, magic books about cooking and housework are quite popular among housewives.
For example, poor wizarding families like the Weasley family only worry because they have to educate four or five children and cannot afford new magic books and wands.
Even though their family couldn't even afford a single gold galleon, they could still live in a large house of over a hundred square meters with an endless yard, and the family could still eat whatever they wanted all day long. But these are still a luxury for many Muggles who far exceed them in wealth.
Therefore, for wizards, apart from the production of magic items, all industries are of no value - anyway, why spend money to buy things that can be obtained through magic spells?
However, a pure-blood family spends a large amount of wealth every year in order to maintain the family's luxurious life, communicate with other families, and manage various classes; and this kind of wealth consumption is far from the Ministry of Magic. You can make money by holding a position, or opening one or two alchemy props or potion shops.
All this led to their continued decline and degradation.
In fact, many pure-blood families with a long history have become obsolete due to their inability to make ends meet, abandoning the last traces of their dignity.
There are still many families who can only survive by borrowing money from Gringotts.
This is one of the reasons why Voldemort's concept of"pure-blood supremacy" inherited from Slytherin, or Gellert Grindelwald's concept of"wizard supremacy" can attract these pure-blood families.
According to Voldemort or Grindelwald's ideas, wizards can abandon the"International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy", take the initiative to appear in front of Muggles, defeat and control Muggle society through magic, plunder Muggle wealth, and enslave Muggles. Through this method, the pure-blood family can obtain a large amount of wealth and resources from Muggles, once again filling their treasury in Gringotts, allowing their family to continue to enjoy the same luxurious life as before!
Among them, Voldemort went one step further than Grindelwald. Not only did he want to enslave Muggles, he also rejected wizards born by Muggles, and he also looked down upon mixed-blood wizards. He hopes to establish a wizarding society where power is in the hands of pure-blood wizards. In such a society, pure-blood wizards are the privileged class. They exploit half-blood and Muggle-born wizards and exclude the emergence of Muggle wizards. Since Muggle wizards' families have no access to the wizarding world before they awaken their magic, their access to magic depends entirely on the initiative of the wizarding world. In this way, their power can be completely controlled by pure-blood wizards. Unable to resist.
In Ye Ting's view, Grindelwald's idea was quite ridiculous, but Voldemort's strategy was more feasible.
Because the wizarding world's demand for the Muggle world is not as great as imagined.
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