[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Upkeep and Lack of Tuition

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 36380


>> Where does Hogwarts get its
>> funds to continue running at all, let alone at the level of decadence
>> that it apparently does?

Perhaps Hogwarts is the wizard equivalent of a muggle 'state school'.  Our
state schools are paid for via taxes.   The wizarding community as a whole
may pay for the running of Hogwarts.

Perhaps Hogwarts has to be a boarding school because of the small size and
geographical spread of the wizarding community in the British Isles.  There
may only be enough wizards and witches to require one school, so it has to
be one at which the students can live.  (If there are in fact other, less
prestigious, schools of magic in the UK, the same probably applies to them.)

Hence, no tuition or boarding fees.

I wonder what the expenses of running Hogwarts are?  Teachers' salaries, of
course, but I doubt there are any rates (taxes) on the building and
grounds, and presumably all running repairs are done by magic.  The castle
itself must have been paid for long since.  There are supplies for the
various classes, eg Potions, and food - but the house elves work for
nothing.

Pen