[HPforGrownups] Re: Why not BRIBE the Dursleys, for heavens sake?

[happydogue at aol.com]

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I don't know if this was brought up in this discussion but - how about just paying for his expences.  It sounds as if the Drusleys have enough cash.  Mrs. doesn't work outside of the home and Mr. has a good job but they may not have resented Harry as much if some of his living expences had been covered.  It's not cheep to raise a kid.

I don't know how social services work in GB and the Dursleys may not have wanted to go that route but in my state if you take in the child of a relative as a "foster child" the state pays you the foster care rate for the cost of the child's expences.  The Dursleys seem like the kind of people who would want to pick up the extra cash.

That brings be to another question...Harry must of had a birth certificate or sometype of record to get into school.  I wonder how they worked that?

Just my rantings...

Joan