[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 9790


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From: "Ebony " <ebonyink at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding aristocracy (rather long)


>
> What do you read between the lines?  Most of the Hogwarts kids seem
> to have come from solidly middle class backgrounds.  Well, I work
> with kids in a city where an estimated 50% of families live below the
> poverty line... and I don't mean the Weasleys.  Would such kids in
> England get letters from Hogwarts, if they had magical ability?  What
> if they had no home for the letters to be sent to?  What if their
> parents could not afford the books/robes/wand?  Are there funds
> available?  Or is this kid, magical though they might be, just out of
> luck?
>

That would make an interesting story line.  A homeless child gets a letter
from Hogwarts.  Does Hogwarts have scholarships? And what about tuition?
Obviously students have to find some way to afford uniforms and school
supplies, but has any mention of tuition ever been made?  Is Hogwarts a
"public" school?  And being a starving grad student myself, I wonder if the
Ministry of Magic offers financial aid loans.  Actually I wonder a lot of
things about Harry's world...It keeps my mind busy, off the streets and out
of trouble.

oh, I'm Ender, by the way...new to the list.

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