Cauldrons & Bill Weasley

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No: HPFGUIDX 50817

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carolyn <summer2999 at a...>" 
<summer2999 at a...> wrote:
>> My question is about cauldrons.  In the first book, a cauldron is 
on 
> Harry's school supply list, and he contemplates getting a solid 
gold 
> one.  My question is, what do the students do with their cauldrons 
> once they get to school?  It's not very practical to think that 
they 
> carry their cauldron around with them until Potions class, because 
> cauldrons are heavy.  I also don't think they use them for 
homework 
> purposes, because it would make sense that the only potion making 
> students do is under the watch of Professor Snape--what if 
something 
> went wrong?  So what then, is the purpose of the cauldron?  > 


I always assumed that Hogwarts' supply list was like my children's 
in school.  When I buy the supplies, they go to my son's classroom 
and become "community property."  They pile all the spirals in a 
certain storage area and whenever a student needs one, they get a 
new one.  The same goes for pencils, paper, writing tablets and 
paper for art.  I assumed that all students bought a cauldron and 
that that cauldron is used a some point in the year, such as when 
one someone melts one (Neville).  Just my two cents worth..

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