Fees for Harry

[kat7555]

No: HPFGUIDX 179365

> Lizzyben:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Lynda:
> What money? I never got the idea that the Dursleys got any money
> for keeping Harry. Harry was their family, like it or not and
> therefore, with his godfather presumably a mass murderer, their
> responsibility whether or not they received money for taking him
> in. And that's not so strange, either. Think of all the single
> parents and grandparents who are raising kids on their own without
> help from anyone.


I think if Dumbledore had given the Dursleys money for Harry's
care they would have spent it on Dudley anyway. In Sorcerer's Stone
Harry is forced to eat cold soup and wear Dudley's hand me downs
while Dudley gets whatever he wants. I think Vernon made enough
money to support the family they made a deliberate choice to neglect
Harry.

Kathy Kulesza