Hogwarts Upkeep - How big is the community?

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 36486

  Costs would be lower than at comparable muggle 
schools, as the physical plant has long since been amortized and much of the 
labor is provided by house elves.  If they can support an entire complex Ministry 
of Magic, they can also suport a school!

In that case, any ideas anyone on exactly how big the wizarding community within the UK is, or would need to be?  It's an interesting point to ponder as magic can onloy do so much mending and organising within the school I suppose.  The other idea, of endowments, is an excellent and feasible one, and would account in no small part for Hogwarts ability to furnish top quality education for its students.

** In connection with my query about the approx. size of the wizarding community. Having just returned to CoS for the first time in absolutely ages, I find that Mr Dursley DOES see large numbers of wizards all celebrating the demise of Voldemort and if these are just the *careless* ones that allow themselves to be seen, perhaps the wizard population is much greater than I, for one, had really considered.  **

Felicia


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