(joke) was how wealthy is Harry

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
  Perhaps this is a problem with UK to US translation:  In
British English, "a small fortune" can, and usually does, mean a very 
largefortune, not, as might be assumed, a modest fortune.   Admittedly, 
it's arather confusing use of the word "small," but it is an emphatic 
use, and Ithink JKR intended that phrase to mean that Harry was left a 
massive amountof money.

**
Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary: -'small fortune'- [colloq] - great 
wealth; a
huge sum of money.
**

Neil


Q: How do you make a small fortune in real estate?
A: Start with a large one.

Pippin