[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts Tuition (a little late)

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 37612


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From: "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at aol.com>

> I was *going* to reply that this is just an assumption on
Vernon's part, why
> would he know how Hogwarts operates.  But then I remembered:
He's married to
> an alumna!  So perhaps Vernon knows something we don't, after
all.

Um, actually Vernon is married to the sister of an alumna... and
a sister who has such dislike for her sister and her sisters
world that I don't feel that we can be sure that Petunia Dursley
can be a valid source of information about Hogwarts.

Of course, if we posit that there IS tuition at Hogwarts, maybe
part of the anger and jealousy Petunia has is because the money
that paid for Lily's education mean that she (Petunia) had to
settle for less of an education than she desired... Trying to
estimate Petunia's age from her appearance is difficult, but
she's older than Lily and if enough older, the money needed to
pay for Hogwarts could have taken away from Petunia's "university
fund" or something like that... (Was Lily younger or older than
Petunia?  I can't recall if that was even stated in the books and
I don't have my copies handy to check...)

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).