[HPforGrownups] Re: Did Harry Exchange Galleons for Pounds?

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58988

Innermurk wrote:

> Although I do wonder why the Dursley's never ask Harry how he affords
> to go to the school. They might be intimidated by what Hagrid said,
> but as much as they bully him around, I wouldn't think that they'd
> hesitate to try and get it out of him during the summer. Even
> subtracting the muggle clothes, he still has that trunk full of
> robes, potion ingrediants, spellbooks, parchment, ink, wand, and
> other things. Not to mention Hedwig.
> I can only conclude that there is just not enough time to write down
> everything that happens to Harry, and we have to be content to get
> what we get.

They're probably afraid to ask where he got all of his wizarding things.
Couple that with the Dursleys desire to pretend that Harry's wizarding
things and, by extension, the wizarding world, don't exist and/or have no
part in their world at all.  In their mind, it's bad enough the stuff is in
the house to begin with.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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