[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts Tuition/Thoughts on Crooked noses: wasWeasley Family

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 73215

On 26 Jul 2003 at 0:43, meltowne wrote:

> I haven't seen anything specifically stating there is or isn't 
> tuition, but in SS/PS Vernon refuses to pay for Harry to attend 
> Hogwarts.  When Harry brings it up again, Hagrid tells him not to 
> worry about it because his parents left him plenty of money.  It's 
> not completely clear if he takes money out just to pay for his 
> supplies, or to pay tuition also - and I suppose tuition could be 
> transferred to the Hogwarts account directly, just as we use wire 
> transfers.  But Hagrid never comes out and says there is no tuition, 
> leading me to the opposite conclusion from yours - that there is 
> tuition.

Yes, but in Prisoner of Azkaban (p42/43, British edition) we have the 
following passage:

"Once Harry had refilled his money bag with gold Galleons, silver 
Sickles, and bronze Knuts from his vault at Gringotts, he had to 
exercise a lot of self-control not to spend the whole lot at once. He 
had to keep reminding himself that he had five years to go at Hogwarts, 
and how it would feel to ask the Dursleys for money for spellbooks, to 
stop himself from buying a handsome set of solid gold Gobstones (a 
wizarding game rather like marbles, in which the stones squirt a nasty-
smelling liquid into the other player's face when they lose a point)."

Note - 'ask the Dursleys for money for spellbooks.' Not for school fees. 
This isn't conclusive, by any means, but under normal circumstances you 
would think the greatest expense is the one that would come to mind 
first. And if there are school fees, I would certainly expect them to be 
the greatest expense.

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