[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Upkeep and Lack of Tuition

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 36366

abigail_draconi wrote:
> 
> Where does Hogwarts get its
> funds to continue running at all, let alone at the level of decadence
> that it apparently does? I happen to go to a City University of New
> York and I *still* have to pay a tuition although I live a bout a mile
> from it. And from every referance of bording and privite schools I've
> seen (and I am by no means an experet) tuition plays a roll. Yet there
> is no mention of it in any of the books. And given the finacial
> attitudes of some of the characters, we would've heard about it if
> there was one.

It is possible for a boarding school not to have to charge
tuition if the initial (or, I suppose, subsequent) endowments are
big enough.  Here in Port Deposit, Maryland, back in the 1890's
sometime, a millionaire named Jacob Tome founded the Tome School
with a 3 million dollar endowment -- a LOT of money, in the
1890's.

They didn't have to start charging tuition until sometime in the
1960's.

So if Hogwarts has enough rich contributors who are interested in
having the youth of the wizarding world taught properly, it's
possible that they don't need to charge fees (although students
do have to chip in for books, supplies, etc., as we know).


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>