Fees for Harry

a_svirn a_svirn at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 26 19:03:36 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 179379

> Carol:
> We don't know that he had no right to take money out of the vault.
> After all, both Bill Weasley and Molly Weasley took money from 
Harry's
> vault to pay for his books, and that's what Dumbledore was doing:
> taking money to pay for Harry's books, robes, cauldron and other
> school supplies. Possibly the Potters authorized DD to take money 
from
> the vault to take care of Harry in the event of their deaths. 

a_svirn:
Seems quite impossible, considering that they appointed *Sirius* as 
their son's guardian. 

> Carol:
It's not
> as if he was taking it to spend on himself or the school. Evidently,
> all that's required is the key and a note authorizing the 
withdrawal.
> [Hagrid presented such a note from DD along with the key to Harry's
> vault, so possibly Molly and Bill also had such a note. 
*Crookshanks*
> delivered a note authorizing a withdrawal from Sirius Black's vault,
> IIRC. 

a_svirn:
Yes, that did seem somewhat farfetched to me too. 

> Carol:
> At any rate, *someone* needed to get into Harry's vault to allow him
> access to his own money. 

a_svirn:
Not necessarily. In POA he takes his money out himself and spends 
them at his own discretion. Could have spent the whole of his fortune 
on broomsticks if he wanted to. 

> Carol:
If DD hadn't had the key (either given/lent
> to him, perhaps at the time he was lent the Invisibility Cloak, or
> found in the partially ruined house at Godric's Hollow), 

a_svirn:
I wonder how people do give/lent such things as keys to their money 
vault to their acquaintance? Then again what'shisname did lend 
Dumbledore his notes on the uses of Dragon Blood
 

> Carol:
Harry would
> have been dependent like Tom Riddle on charity money--absurd since 
all
> that money was his by right. 

a_svirn:
Why? Surely if the money were his by right he would be given an 
access to it? 

> Carol:
Essentially, DD did whatever was required
> to give *Harry* or those acting in his interest access to Harry's
> money. It was never used for any purpose except school supplies and
> pocket money for Harry. DD didn't buy brooms for the Gryffindor team
> or pay teachers' salaries with it, after all. 

a_svirn:
Well, he could, if he felt like it. He seemed to have been 
accountable to no one.

> Carol:
Nor, as you say, did he
> pay the Dursleys to take care of Harry using Harry's money or any
> other source of funding. He must have been counting on Petunia's
> suppressed love for her sister 

a_svirn:
Counting on 
 what? How on earth could he have counted on any such 
thing? 

> Carol:
combined with self-interest (keep Harry
> safe and the protective charm will protect your family, too).

a_svirn:
Protect from what? So far as I can see they let the danger in the 
moment they let Harry in. No Harry, no danger. 

 
> Carol, who thinks that without Dumbledore's "interference," Harry
> would not have reached his second birthday, with or without Sirius
> Black, who was also in danger from the DEs

a_svirn:
Impossible to verify, isn't it? I would have been quite another story.







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