Questions: Dumbledore as student, other magic schools, Potter money, Muggle money exchange

[Melissa McCarthy]

No: HPFGUIDX 49488

These are just some things I've been pondering recently.  My apologies again if any have been answered!  The archives are vast and Yahoo is uncooperative ^^

1) Was Dumbledore a student at Hogwarts or at a different wizard school when he was young?  If he was at Hogwarts, which House was he in?  Was this ever answered in the books?

2) Do the other magic schools have Houses as well?  Argh... I must reread GoF, as I seem to remember something about this.  Does the Muggle education system of a particular country affect that country's wizard school(s) in any way?

3) Where did Lily and James Potter get all of the money they left to Harry?  Was James' family rich?  The Dursleys, though well-off, aren't amazingly rich, and most of their money probably comes from the business Vernon owns; did the Evanses leave Lily all or most of their money (we know they were proud of having a witch in the family), cutting out Petunia?  It seems likely to me, though, that if Petunia had been cut out of the will, she would have complained about it, loudly, repeatedly, and at great length ^^ so it's more probable that it was the Potters, not the Evanses, who were rich.

4) That's got me thinking, how do wizard children born to Muggle families get any money to spend in Diagon Alley and at Hogsmeade?  Is there some sort of Muggle/wizard currency-exchange service?  Would wizards have any use whatsoever for Muggle money?  Ron has never seen Muggle money, so that suggests it can't be used in the WW.

Melissa, who thinks too much about pointless things ^^;

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