1000 Galleon Reward

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 131259

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, tyler maroney <tmar78 at y...> 
wrote:
> Regarding the 1000 Galleon Reward offered for the
> capture of any of the escaped DEs,  I had a thought. 
> JKR said that Harry will leave Privet Drive early in
> the summer for a "pleasant" reason.  What if its to
> collect the reward money?  Thoughts anyone?

Yes.  I posted the original message about the reward and this exact 
same thought ocurred to me, rather belatedly, last night when I was 
supposed to be going to sleep!  I didn't make myself clear in the 
original post (there's a surprise!) but my gut reaction was that the 
reward would be 9000 galleons and that the adults would decline to 
share it, although Lupin may be persuaded to take his share due to 
his personal circumstances.  I also think that Harry and Hermione 
will decline, as neither of them are needy financially.  This will 
leave the reward to be shared between Ron, Ginny, Luna (she is also 
not well off.  At the Quiddich world cup Mr Weasly said that people 
with the cheaper tickets had to go much earlier and they were told 
when they got to the portkey 'station'  that the Lovegoods had been 
on site 2 weeks already) and possibly Neville and Lupin.

I also thought last night, when wondering if this could be 
the 'pleasant reason', that they may also be being awarded with a 
Junior Merlin award or something similar.  A sort of cross between 
the Merlin First and Second class awards that some of the adults 
have and the Chilren of Courage awards from the RW.

Karen