Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Borgin and Burkes”

As mentioned in the article on [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Knockturn Alley|Knockturn Alley]], there will be places where Dark wizards can trade, places where "decent wizards don't go." Borgin & Burkes clearly is one such; while they do appear to do a reasonable amount of trade in non-Dark artifacts, as seen by Tom Riddle's negotiations with Hepzibah Smith regarding a suit of armour, and Smith's purchase of Slytherin's locket, their dealings with Lucius Malfoy clearly indicate that they do not discriminate between Dark and regular magical artifacts. We do not know whether this lack of discrimination controlled their settling in Knockturn Alley, or whether the Alley developed its reputation around the store. We do know that they have been in business since before the birth of Tom Riddle, as Slytherin's locket was sold to them by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Merope Gaunt|Merope Gaunt]] before Tom was born. However, we don't know how long before that the establishment existed. The name does indicate that it was founded by a Borgin and a Burke, and possibly the original BurkeBorgin still operates the store; but names mean little, as Ollivander's has been producing "fine wands since 382 BC," much longer than [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ollivander|Mr. Ollivander]], its current proprietor, can possibly have been alive, without the help of a magical artifact such as the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]].

The mature reader may have difficulty understanding exactly how Borgin & Burkes stay in business, as the vanishing cabinet, the cursed necklace, and the Hand of Glory, which we see in Harry's second year, are still there in Harry's sixth year for Draco to purchase. If the store was at all successful, we would not expect things, even expensive things like the vanishing cabinet and the necklace, to stay in the store stock four years. In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Dumbledore]]'s [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pensieve|Pensieve]], we do see that BurkeBorgin buys very cheap and sells very dear, but even the profit margin implicit in his questionable ethical stance would not be enough to keep the store going unless there was a lot of business we weren't seeing. However, we must mention that the intended audience for this series are children with an incomplete understanding of economics; to a child, when you go to a store where you have previously seen item X, the store will have it available for purchase, and it is unlikely that a child will draw a distinction between stock and unique items.