It is estimated Harry had quite a lot of money, which he inherited from James and Lily. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - pages 58-59 - US Hardcover Edition Right, that should be enough fer a couple o' terms, we'll keep the rest safe for yeh." "Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough. "The gold ones are Galleons," he explained. Hagrid helped Harry pile some of it into a bag. How often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep? And all the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep under London. The Dursleys couldn't have known about this or they'd have had it from him faster than blinking. Heaps of little bronze Knuts.Īll Harry's - it was incredible. A lot of green smoke came billowing out, and as it cleared, Harry gasped. The exact amount is never stated in canon, and it's impossible to estimate without knowing exactly how many Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts Harry owned. This is enough to do quite a bit, but while someone could potentially live off of it for life, it wouldn't be a particularly well off lifestyle, and many people would continue to work to earn money even with that income. (EDIT- It seems there is no tuition at Hogwarts, making the cost quite a bit less.)Īll in all, I'm guessing that the amount of money would be somewhere around $1 million USD, or about 20K Galleons. There's a fairly popular article, no longer on the web, but mentioned in sites like this, that estimates the cost of going to Hogwarts at about $50K USD/year.Everything in this case is paying for his books, supplies, and other general spending money for the year.
This seems to be enough to leave him with a considerable, but not insurmountable, amount after everything is done.
Harry stayed for 2 weeks at the Leaky Cauldron.Estimates for the Firebolt's cost is around 400-1000 Galleons. In particular, the Firebolt seemed out of his reach, although he could have bought it, it would have used a considerable amount of his cash. Harry had a visibly large amount of money, but not so much that he could afford to spend in on whatever he wanted.Let me give you a few clues as to how much that might be, and then let's estimate. Slytherincess has given an excellent answer if we could figure out how much Harry has.
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