This is the only known item like it in the Wizarding World, putting Flamel in a league of his own. Nicolas Flamel is easily the richest character in Harry Potter.
Harry is the richest student at Hogwarts by default. He inherited his parents money (and later the Black fortune) - and it was his and his alone. If he wanted to empty his vault and spend it all on sweets, and Quidditch brooms - he could. There was nobody to stop him.
Harry's money hoard has been described as a small fortune, while the Malfoys have a mansion and a fortune. It's not even close. According to Forbes list of richest fictional characters, Lucius Malfoy stands at number 12 with $1.3 Billion.
The Pureblood families including the Blacks and Malfoys probably invested heavily into the magical side of the colonial world. Malfoys are clearly the richest by a longshot.
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Are the Weasleys poor?
Over the years, fans have criticized the titular Harry Potter character for allowing The Weasley family to live in poverty even though he had enough wealth to help them. The Weasleys were known in the wizarding world for being of lower economic status, something the Malfoys loved to remind them of.
Having rendered unknown, shady (and almost certainly magical) services to King William I, Malfoy was given a prime piece of land in Wiltshire, seized from local landowners, upon which his descendants have lived for ten consecutive centuries.
The Weasleys are poor because of having 7 children. Until Bill and Charlie started working, the Weasley family had one earning member to take care of the household expenses, education and upbringing of 9 family members.
How much money was Harry Potter left by his parents?
NeokratosRed used their majorly impressive mathematical skills to calculate that there's a minimum of 50,625 galleons in Harry's vault. Since we know one galleon is equal to around $25, the minimum amount of money in Harry's vault is a mind-blowing $1,265,625!
Hermione is one of the most intelligent characters in Harry Potter not because of her wealth of knowledge, but her application of that knowledge that she proves time and time again, especially in Deathly Hallows Part I when her strategizing, quick thinking, and preparedness kept Harry and Ron alive on their hunt for ...
Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley, also started with a salary less than $1 million but ended up earning $30 million for his performance in the final two Harry Potter films. However, Grint has the lowest net worth compared to Radcliffe and Watson due to a quieter post-Harry Potter career.
For generations the Malfoy family annexed the land owned by neighbouring Muggles and invested heavily in Muggle currency and assets as their fortune grew.
Fleamont Potter died of dragon pox and his fortune was left to his son, James Potter. From there, the family fortune was bequeathed to Harry, after James and Lily Potter were killed.
Now for the Malfoys. They had about 321,000,000 galleons, about 2.2 billion dollars, and 1.6 billion pounds. They were probably some of the richest families.
Dobby spent at least a year searching for a family who would pay him wages to be their House-Elf, something which is unheard of in the wizarding world. Eventually, Professor Dumbledore agreed to pay Dobby one Galleon per week to work at Hogwarts – he had offered more, but Dobby bargained him down.
His income would likely be higher due to the school's exclusivity. Harry, an Auror, married Ginny who likely earned more. He was independently wealthy, with a net worth of $300,000 and income from property ownership. Hermione worked her way up to Minister for Magic, earning around 8000 Galleons ($200,000) per year.
Looking into the past, the true heir of Slytherin turns out to be none other than Tom Marvolo Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, the Dark Lord. Besides his ability to speak Parseltongue, which he passed on to Harry after he survived his attack, his bloodline was linked to the Hogwarts founder.
How did James and Lily Potter get so rich? James and Lily inherited the money. James's father, Fleamont, invented Sleekeazy's Hair Potion (what Hermione used to tame her hair for the Yule Ball.) Fleamont Potter made quite a bit of money from his invention, and upon retirement, sold the company for a large profit.
Salazar Slytherin was a proponent of pure-blood supremacy who considered Muggleborns too untrustworthy to be taught magic. Slytherin's views at the time could be attributed to the persecution of witches and wizards at the hand of Muggles during his era.
The Malfoy family also have strong ties to the Slytherin House, with the majority of its members being sorted into the group at Hogwarts. All the Malfoys seen in the films were sorted into this house, even in the epilogue.
Isaacs brings up Lucius' disheveled appearance in Deathly Hallows, raising the possibility that the Malfoy patriarch had begun drinking too much. The way Isaacs saw it, Lucius was in a no-win situation. Given everything he'd done, the man no longer had a place on either side of the war.
Andromeda married a Muggle-born, Ted Tonks, and was subsequently disowned by the Blacks, whereas Narcissa, conversely, married Lucius Malfoy, heir of a wealthy pure-blood family; thus, Bellatrix is the aunt of both Nymphadora Tonks and Draco Malfoy.
