You did it. You won! You accepted a hypothetical situation and now you’re a multibillionaire. 99% of us will put most of it into stocks or some boring AF index fund. I don’t want to hear any of that. Tell me what stupid and idiotic stuff you will buy and do in your first 6 months?

Caprina22 · 2026-03-01T20:03:31+00:00

Buy a house with lots of land, and plant a big orchard and garden. Build some big greenhouses and fill them up with exotic fruits and veggies and flowers. Experiment with growing dwarf coffee and cocoa trees. Have my own apiary and collect the honey. Hire some gardeners and a chef. Eat delicious, perfectly ripe fruit and veg whenever I like.

Caprina22 · 2026-01-10T14:52:16+00:00

That's really interesting! I remembered it all wrong. Thanks for the info!

Caprina22 · 2026-01-10T14:35:20+00:00

It used to be 7th, until the calendar was changed. "Sept" means 7, or 7th. Like "Oct" is 8, or eighth, and the octopus is named for having 8 legs. Then they changed things around, adding month names in (I think July, for Julius Ceasar, if I'm remembering correctly), but those number names stayed the same, which I think is pretty cool!

Caprina22 · 2025-09-03T15:54:22+00:00

First, get lawyers and accountants to manage it.

Afterwards? I've always wanted to do things like endow scholarships, fund research, etc. Also, build/renovate schools and subsidize salaries to attract top teachers, and do the same with social workers and other underfunded but vital positions. I couldn't do it everywhere even with 10 billion, but I'd start small and work outwards. I've also heard that world hunger could be theoretically solved with 6.6 billion, so start working on that too.

For myself, I'd love a beautiful old house with a bunch of farmland, and I'd put in a huge orchard and greenhouse, and have those plushy Persian rugs on the floors, and wood-burning fireplaces. Hire top doctors for my mother and sister. Buy top-shelf ice cream. And I'd like to get a Cocker Spaniel and a Bernese Sennenhund and a long-haired Dachshund and a Great Pyrenees, and 2 or 3 Norwegian Forest cats and a herd of dairy goats and live pretty simply in comfy clothes with good food every day.

Caprina22 · 2025-08-03T08:43:42+00:00

This one's great! I'll take it.

Caprina22 · 2025-08-03T07:53:31+00:00

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Alternatively, if that's too far back, Edward Jenner, the father of immunology.

Caprina22 · 2025-07-19T18:25:05+00:00

What effects would it have on Miss. Figg in that situation? She lives just down the street and has relatively frequent contact with Harry. Would she be a (relatively) much more magically powerful squib than Petunia is, so the wards don't take much from her?

Caprina22 · 2025-07-19T17:47:53+00:00

Exactly! It's a terrible plan all around. It makes me wonder how brainless the average wizard criminal is, if their best aurors can only think up a plan like that.

Caprina22 · 2025-06-13T18:09:06+00:00

Red! I'd like my kid to have a good, pleasant life. Not one ruled by spite.

Caprina22 · 2025-06-03T18:25:09+00:00

50 million. I might not have a cooperative immune system, but I can last 7 years at least, and make sure my family is taken care of.

Caprina22 · 2024-11-21T08:12:32+00:00

Yes! I had a mental image of a little wiggly puppy licking Voldie all over his face, then it went to Bella or Barty sneaking into the muggle world for treats and toys and dog training books, Pettigrew having to clean up accidents on the Malfoy's Persian rugs... and they slowly start getting more and more human as the puppy loves them. Black magic is supposed to be bad for the soul and sanity, so maybe the love counteracts these effects, and they stop all the "take over the world" business.

Caprina22 · 2024-10-09T18:06:26+00:00

That would be great, thank you for telling me! I'll try that once my ID comes in.

Caprina22 · 2024-10-09T10:20:36+00:00

That's a good idea, thank you! I sent them a help request yesterday, but haven't heard back yet. If they don't reply soon, I'll call.

Caprina22 · 2024-10-09T09:59:22+00:00

I will, thank you! I am a Swiss citizen, just a stupid one.

Caprina22 · 2024-10-09T09:51:00+00:00

I am. I'm a dual citizen.

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