Names, that mirror, snape and teaching(OT)

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 1280

> In the UK we are suffering from a teacher shortage. Part time or 
temporary
> teachers have filled many posts. It has been worked out that if 
half of the
> mathematics undergraduates that finished their course in June went 
into
> teaching then all the mathematic vacancies in schools will be 
filled. I will
> not be going into teaching and I know few others who want too. I 
will leave
> others to work if the problem will get better or worse!

I am a great believer in economics as a solution many problems, and 
it is obvious that that what is needed to solve a teacher shortage is 
to raise teacher salaries to induce more people to enter into this 
profession.  Of course, hopefully they wouldn't be in it for just the 
money :-)
If there is truly a shortage of teachers at Hogwarts, they ought to 
raise teacher salaries there.  But thinking about this brings up a 
couple questions:
1) If there is a teacher shortage, esecially for the DADA job, why 
doesn't Dumbledore give Snape the DADA job, since he supposedly wants 
it?  I think Dumbly has some specific reason for not giving Snape the 
job; perhaps Snape is the only really good Potions teacher 
available.  On the other hand, Dubly might not want to let Snape do 
too much studying in the Dark Arts, since studying them too closely 
is what led to the corruption of Quirell.  (note: a similar thing 
happened to Saruman in LOTR).
2) where exactly does Hogwarts get its money?  I don't recall Harry 
having to get money for tuition from his Gringott's vault when he 
went there with Hagrid in Book 1.  So is it the wizard form of a 
public school (which would mean that wizards would have to be taxed 
somehow too), or do they raise money through other funds, such as 
alumni contributions? Or perhaps Harry got some sort of scholarship, 
or perhaps Dumbly paid the money out of his own pocket?  I guess any 
of those are possible.