Hogwarts letters, wizarding shopping, and Money issues (was: Money issues

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59122

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, rayheuer3 at a... wrote:
> > manawydan at n... writes:
> > 
> I not only can't see Dumbledore going along with that, but I don't 
> see how it could be arranged. According to JKR, the Quill writes 
the 
> name of each magical child born in Britain in a book when it is 
born 
> and once a year McGonagall consults the books and addresses 
Hogwarts 
> letters to each of this year's crop. 
<SNIP> 

>What about a magic child who was born overseas while its British 
> Muggle parents were on holiday or working overseas for just a few 
> years? 


I have a theory. Whether the parents are muggle or not, if a child 
was born in a country that was not in the school district that the 
country(ies) of their parents citizenship(s) were, they can get a 
letter to attend schools in thoses districts or all  districts were 
citizenship applies.

If a child lives in another country (for a significant amount of 
time) that is not in the school district that country of their 
parent's citizenship or the country of their birth were locates, 
again, they can receive letters from the school of that district also.

I think language skills are an important part as to whether students 
get a letter to such and such a school. Considering what we have seen 
in the Beauxbaton student scenes in GOF, it appears that they 
communicate to each other in French and I'm making the assumption 
that many of their classes are taught in French while the spells 
still remain JKR's form of Latin. I know we hear Drumstrang students 
speak english, but would that have anything to do with KarKaroff 
possibly being a little 'encouraging' in that direction.

I'm not saying that knowing French, german, etc will get a student a 
letter from schools in those districts, it depends first on if their 
parents have citizenship and whether the student lived in those 
areas. Then language comes into play. 

While Draco may be bragging, I'm sure that if his father could pull 
the appropriate  strings, Draco would have to learn one of the 
primary languages that are spoken at Drumstrang for possible 
government approval. (Assumption based on Lexicon article regarding 
Drumstrang)


-SophineClaire