[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts as state school (was what do squib children do for schooling?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 71863

Kirstini wrote:
> And despite the posh little boy playing Colin in TMTMNBN, Colin and 
> Dennis Creevey's father is a milkman. I wonder if he could really 
> afford two sets of school fees on that sort of salary?

What's "TMTMNBN" mean? I can't figure it out, though you appear to be 
referring to the movie...

>   Hogwarts must be state-run, because the Ministry wouldn't be able to 
> interfere to the degree it does were the school privately funded.

Actually, with the WW government being as autocratic as it is, i don't 
think it needs to be the ones actually paying for the school's 
operations to be able to interfere all it wants.

The Crashing Boar wrote:
> State funded education for the masses in the Muggle world is a fairly 
> recent innovation, after all.  Harry may be in receipt of a grant or 
> trust fund he has no knowledge of.

Or an inheritance, which he does have some knowledge of.

>   Of course, if you want canon evidence to the fact entry isn't 
> automatic for magical children(I haven't got my books to hand, I can't 
> quote) I believe it is stated that Dumbledore actually had to fight to 
> get two pupils admitted, one because he was a werewolf, the other who 
> was simply a half breed.

If the second is Hagrid, i can find nowhere in canon that says 
Dumbledore fought to get him in, and every indication that as a mere 
transfiguration teacher he wouldn't have had enough pull to do so. I 
read the werewolf thing (Lupin saying he was lucky for Dumbledore's 
position of headmaster - a position he did not have in Hagrid's time) 
as being more of an accomodations thing (the shrieking shack) and not 
expelling him, than anything else.