Fees for Harry

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179372

> lizzyben:
> 
> This is total wild speculation here, though it's somewhat 
> interesting to imagine the knut/pound conversion rate, or DD's 
> mother's hypothetical talent for finance.  And I haven't found an 
> answer for my original question - how did DD end up w/the Potter's 
> key in the first place? He wasn't the heir, or the guardian. So, I'm 
> not sure DD had any right to get money out of the bank vault in the 
> first place. 


Pippin:
There's no reason that the financial guardian and the custodial guardian
have to be the same person, especially when great sums or esoteric
assets that need special management skills (a pile of wizard gold would 
certainly qualify!) are involved. The irony in this case is that the Dursleys
would probably have been much better custodians of gold  than they
were of  Harry! 

The Potters trusted DD with the Invisibility Cloak, which is doubtless
worth more than everything in their vault, so why not trust him with the
key? They could have made DD the trustee of their estate and the
executor of their will, and  given him discretion to appont another
guardian if Sirius was unable to serve. 

If it takes thirty days for a wizarding will to go into effect, then
possibly Sirius never became legally Harry's guardian, and Vernon and
Petunia were appointed quite legitimately. 

I see no reason not to take Dumbledore at his word that the blood
protection was the main reason for choosing the Dursleys as guardians.
The blood protection would keep working even if Dumbledore was
killed or the ministry fell, and those were quite reasonable concerns.
 

Pippin