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Independent George:
Harry:

1. Lives on a remote island with his own private dock.
2. Has a time share on a yacht.
3. Is a premiere member of the most exclusive health club in Chicago.
4. Cruises Chicago in a vintage Rolls Royce Silver Wraith.
5. Has been spotted at the ultra-chic club Zero.
6. Vacations in Mexico and Scotland at the drop of a hat.

Clearly, Harry is a bazillionaire. He isn't a slob; he's eccentric.

Fcrate:
Well.... When you put it like that. lol

Braincandy:

--- Quote from: Linck on June 14, 2018, 01:48:44 AM ---sure I'm almost up to date on the books, I've just begun on Brief cases.
I'll assume u are up to date on changes as well :)

(click to show/hide) As butters committed a huge no, no by bringing bob out in to the field, and Harry now will need a spiritual spirit to help raise his youngest daughter. I would greatly assume he would reclaim Bob, especially as Butters is only holding it temporary.
Butters also have a new teacher (Michael & Charity) + god on his side. So he doesn't necessarily need him anymore.

The diamonds are a finite resource that he will not be able to life off forever on top of that they will take a long time to fence.
If he buys a house and needs to rebuild his tools and laboratory, it will not be cheap.
a few millions doesn't go very far, especially if he needs to hire Kincade or mercenaries again.

So far there hasn't been any talk of support from winter besides from the car, not even a single mention of pay for his services.
I think he would be a fool to set up shop in something that is not his. I would not be surprised if the winter faeries would be able to bypass any securities on the house if they owned it.

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(click to show/hide)The diamonds may be a finite resource but Harry has always lived a very spartan life. Between the diamonds and his salary, I am sure he has more than enough to raise a kid or two. In fact, I'd wager that he is taking this diamond money and taking the first steps to making himself financially solvent in the long term, like the other wizards are described as doing. If nothing else, Harry is smart enough to set aside a fund to make sure Maggie will be cared for if something happens to him.

Plus. I think you may be underselling how much money he has in diamonds. I suspect those boxes were worth far more than just a million or two. Remember, even Marcone had a visible reaction to them when he opened one of those boxes and saw how much was in it...and Marcone is the definition of "poker face" and he's filthy rich.

g33k:
(click to show/hide)I think Harry has HUNDREDS of millions worth of diamonds.  Remember that top-tier professional criminals considered it a permanent-retirement plan.

My math goes as follows (facts via Google; blame estimates on me):  I'm going to liken diamonds to sand, by bulk dry weight.  Diamonds are denser, but there's more airspace.  I think I'm UNDER-estimating the weight of a shoebox-full of diamonds, here, but "about like dry sand" seems like a reasonable approximation. 

Sand weighs about 100 lbs per cubic foot.  I'm going to rough-guess a shoe-box as 6inches x 6inches x 1foot, so we are looking at 1/4 cubic foot, or 25 lbs.

Diamonds are worth about $12.5million per pound.

12.5 x 25 (all rough numbers, so rounding down) is 300million.

I believe this is the LOW end.

Steelblaidd:
Yeah but not all at once.

You dump 25 LBs of Stones on the market all at once and its going to affect the price AND catch the attention of people whose attention you don't want.

Also all this was in the bag carried out by an average sized woman, I suspect its closer to 5 pounds.

Edit: Some one els  has done the math.  Once its all sold  think 7 Figures not 6. https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,53065.msg2318329.html#msg2318329

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