Mr Weasley who is working for the Ministry of Magic is
surprised that a wizards accused of Muggle-baiting has been freed of all
charges. He, thus, makes a conjecture: “‘Well, don’t ask me how, but he
actually got off the toilet charge,[…]I can only suppose gold changed hands’”[1]
The
idiom ‘money changed hands’ has been recreated a little differently in the
wizarding community to say ‘gold changed hands’. Both phrases refer to the
assumption that money has been “given from one person to another in payment for
something, often in a dishonest way.”[2]
This is widely known as bribery. Bribery is defined as “[t]he offering, giving,
receiving, or soliciting of something of value for the purpose of influencing
the action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal
duties.”[3]
In the wizarding world the idiom
refers to gold, which hints at an exchange of Galleons in return for a favour.
In the case of Mr Weasley he suspects that the dropping of all charges has been
enforced with the help of bribery. The Ministry of Magic has often been accused
of being susceptible to deceptive practices which lead to a mistrust as
portrayed by Mr Weasley
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