Fees for Harry / Running Water / Wand Lore

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179343

> lizzyben:
<snip> Petunia complains about the expense of keeping Harry, but 
never 
> mentions getting any financial support. When DD goes to chastise 
the 
> Dursleys in HBP, he never mentions giving the Dursleys any monetary 
> payments, or complains that the Dursleys misused the money they 
were 
> given. Because they weren't given any money. Vernon Dursley first 
> realizes that Harry might have money in HBP, & his attitude changes 
at 
> that time. 
> 
a_svirn:
Precisely. I suppose, from Dumbledore's unorthodox point of view, in 
order to raise Harry "as their own" they should have provided for him 
out of their own pockets. 
"Convenient, eh?"  

By the way, even after DH we are still in the dark about the terms of 
the bargain between Dumbledore and Petunia. I'd say he simply 
threatened to turn her into a newt if she refused, except that 
Dumbledore was never one for simple solutions.