The Moment It Stopped Mattering: After Harry buys Ron's friendship with candy. Before Hagrid tells him "Yer a wizzurd, 'Arry," life with the Dursely's is painted in frankly over the top fashion, as incredibly sucky. Harry lives under the stairs and he's basically their slave and they generally hate him, so we get so many happy feels when we find out that our abused protagonist can not only do magic but is rich beyond his wildest dreams. The revelation is that Harry has a Scrooge McDuck-like pile of gold in his vault at Gringotts, stacks on stacks on stacks of gold Galleons with which he could buy all manner of delightful things, like an expensive broom that would have come in handy (as he discovers when he is given one as a gift later.) And what does he use his fortune for? Pretty much nothing, unless you count buying a diabetes-inducing hog-trough of Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Mostly-Vomit-Flavored Beans for him and Ron's maiden voyage aboard the Hogwarts Express. And that's pretty much the last time we ever hear about Harry's trust fund, which all but evaporates into the ether almost the minute after it is revealed, despite the fact that he could have used it to lavish his adoptive family The Weasleys with gifts. What else did you notice in the Harry Potter films that ended up meaning very little very quickly? Share your own picks below.
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