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

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 73581

On 27 Jul 2003 at 21:45, i_tuan wrote:

> For canonical references, consider the Creeveys.  Colin says his dad's a milkman.  What 
> are the chances that a milkman (in ANY country) makes enough money to pay private-
> school-equivalent tuition for something as far outside the mainstream as Hogwarts?

Um - well, I'm one of the people arguing for a tuition free Hogwarts, 
but I don't think this is anywhere near impossible. My father paid my 
fees at a very exclusive private school in Australia (it is one of the 
most expensive schools in Australia, I'm already saving for any future 
sons to go there) for a year, and would have done so for a further four 
years if necessary (in the event, I was on a near full scholarship from 
my second year which made things much easier.) At the time he was 
working as a night watchman, and earned about the same as a milkman. I 
had a younger brother and a similar amount was spent on him (out of 
fairness). It was an unusual situation - basically my parents had been 
told to send me to this particular school or watch me die, which gave 
them a much higher than normal incentive to find a way to pay the fees - 
but the Creevey's are faced with a pretty unusual situation as well. I'm 
not saying everybody could find a way - but it's not impossible.



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