Wizard $ in Muggle World

[Randy Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 263

As a worried father of 3 kids who will someday want to
go to college, I am surprised that Vernon doesn't see
the advantage of Harry in Wizard School yet.  He
disappears from view for 9 months every year and it
doesn't cost Vernon a penny.  Now what more can a
disgruntled foster parent ask for?


--- Vicki Merriman <vjmerri at iquest.net> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi
> <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > > ReinaKata02 at y... wrote:
> > >
> > >> wizard money (book 2, I think), then can Harry
> do the opposite 
> and > >> have some spending money for his time at
> the Dursley's?
> 
> > I more or less concluded that if he came home from
> school with any
> > money, the durselys would assume one of 3 things:
> (a) he had a 
> magical > way to turn paper into money, (b) he stole
> it (as IF!), or 
> (c) he really > did have some inheretence from his
> parents, as 
> Petunia had suspected, > and now he was going to
> give them access to 
> it darnit! > None of which could lead to good
> results
> 
> I never thought it that way, but you're right.  The
> Dursley's would 
> see any money as suspicious.  I was with the group
> who thought that 
> he could surely exchange a little to have some
> Muggle pocket money.
> 
> However, now Harry is old enough that he could again
> get some money 
> exchanged, if only to buy some muggle clothes that
> fit.  he could say 
> that his godfather, Sirius Black, the notorious
> murderer, had given 
> him the money.  Or, if he didn't want to lie, he
> could still say that 
> he got it from a friend in the wizarding world
> (after all, his 
> parents would have been friendly if they had lived.)
> 
>   JKR said that his clothes were all hand me downs
> from Dudley.  Now 
> if that were really true, then he'd have had trouble
> keeping them 
> on.    I know!  Harry got very good at shrinking
> charms his first 
> year and has been using them to good effect ever
> since.  :-)
> 
> However, Harry could explain away small amounts of
> muggle money, and 
> he could keep it hidden in his Hogwarts trunk where
> the Dursley's 
> would never go looking.  Its time for him to
> exchange from at 
> Gringotts and have a little pocket money.  Not
> enough to rouse their 
> suspicions, but just a little.
> 
> Vicki
> 
> 


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