Boarding schools in Sussex are seeing a big rise in applications for places from children despite the considerable cost to their parents.
Problems in the state sector and increased prosperity are two of the reasons.
The third is the popularity of the Harry Potter books.
For these schools, the fictitious boy wizard is proving to be real magic.
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