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

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No: HPFGUIDX 73267

Message: 21
   Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:00:50 +1000
   From: "Shaun Hately" <drednort at alphalink.com.au>
Subject: Re: Re: Hogwarts Tuition/Thoughts on Crooked
noses: wasWeasley 
Family

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:

<snip>

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.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
Shaun Hately

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If I remember correctly, isn't there a passage in the
first book that says something about Harry having been
"accepted" to Hogwarts since he was a baby? (or is
that movie taintedness)...I can't remember
exactly...anyway, both of Harry's parents went to
Hogwarts and obviously would want Harry to go there as
well, maybe they had set money aside for his school
besides the money that was in Gringotts.  As the books
are written from Harry's POV, he then wouldn't even
mention tuition because it is not something he really
has to worry about/pay attention to.

Just a thought!

~LA-B

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