Harry's Gold

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 130672

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wrote:

Finwitch:

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> 3)They've made good investments (Harry investing into WWW may have 
> been one) that turned out to be very profitable.

Geoff:
I have visions of that being a good little earner for Harry. But of 
course, there'a still the tidy sum which was held by Gringotts.

'All Harry's - it was incredible. The Dursleys couldn't have known 
about this of they'd have had it from him faster than blinking. How 
often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep? And all 
the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep 
under London.'

(PS "Diagon Alley" p.58 UK edition)

It would indeed be interesting to know more about the Potters' 
inheritance and its source. It seems to have been a fairly 
substantial bequest. Do we know definitely what careers James and 
Lily followed? Obviously they didn't get well established since 
Voldemort killed them when they were both still very young. The 
Lexicon suggest that James was only about 21 so they had only been 
out of Hogwarts about three years, so they would not have accumulated 
much money of their from work by that time.