Hogwarts Tuition (a little late) and Fang, Fluffy and Norbert

[mrflynn6]

No: HPFGUIDX 37596

 In double checking my SS-there is a line from Dursley when Hagrid 
> came to the shack on the island to get Harry where Vernon yells to 
> Hagrid "I am not paying for some crack pot old fool to teach him 
> magic tricks" (p. 59 US paperback version).  There must be some 
kind 
> of tuition if Vernon was worried about paying for the school.
> 
> There is also a line on page 58 where Hagrid is telling Dursley 
that 
> if Harry wants to go to Hogwarts, no muggle like Dursley will stop 
> him from going.  Since there is a "choice" about going to Hogwarts, 
> perhaps that suggests that some wizards don't go OR go to another 
> school, somewhere.
> 



In the names that Hagrid gives his pets, Fang fits perfectly.  Fluffy 
and Norbert were both dangerous animals and got "cute" names, Fluffy, 
on the other hand, is a big coward, and thus a "dangeous" name.

> Gretchen