Is Harry Potter an Anti-Royalist Tract?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 175642

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson" <bawilson at ...> wrote:
>
> Career advisor:
> "I start with the fact that in HBP Hermione says that (I'm 
> paraphrasing): 'There are no wizarding princes in Britain'. 
> Which implies that there are probably no noble wizards (and 
> witches?) in the wizarding world. And no student is mentioned
> as being 'noble' at Hogwarts."

Bruce Alan Wilson:
> Justin Fitch-Fetchly, who chose between Eaton and Hogwarts 
> would be at least minor nobility or gentry, wouldn't he?

Geoff:
If you mean because Justin could have gone to Eton then, no.

In times past, public schools such as Eton, Harrow or Rugby  
- to name just a handful - would have been the preserve of 
the nobility or gentry simply because they had the money. 
Today, there are enough people prepared to find the money 
to send their children to a fee-paying school who are from 
otber social backgrounds. 

Some times, this may be done by making financial sacrifices 
in other areas, because a fair number of people send their 
children to private schools because they are not happy with 
the state system.

Presumably, for a family without Muggle links, this point 
would not arise.