Hogwarts tuition

[Trevor Peterson]

No: HPFGUIDX 73570

"megalynn44" <megalynn44 at h...> wrote:
I go to a State run college. It is funded by the State and Federal governments, along with Alumni. Not to 
mention the millions coming in from football (which packs a 
1000,000+ stadium every game) alone. And of course, we have the 
number one women's Basketball program in the nation. We 
rent out to conventions in the summer. With all this help, I still have to pay 2,500 BEFORE food and shelter every year, and our University is strapped for cash.
 
Laxer says:
Your example of the state run college as a roughly equivalent set up for paying tuition doesnt really work.  For a number of reasons.  The first one which you conveniently brought up is sports.  Your college,is it UConn?, within all likelyhood loses a fairly large ammount of money from sports.  If your college is UCONN, then there are 21 varsity sports, most of which make absolutly no money.  In fact they most likely lose money.  You say that your football team brings in millions from filling your stadium.  Unfortunately, those millions that are brought in are for the most part used to pay only for the football team.  If there is any money left over from this, it is used for the other teams.  So sports bring in basically no money. <> However at Hogwarts there is only one sport, Quidditch.  Only money that Hogwarts has to spend for Quidditch is for the game and training robes and the balls.  This isnt much money,  not nearly the same ammount of money that the state school you invision
 is losing from its sports.
 
A second point is the teachers.  Off the top of my head, I was able to come up with no more than ten teachers/people for the entire school.  I can't think of any school with a teacher/student ratio of 1:28  teachers dont have to own a house, so they dont have to be paid as much.  They dont have to buy their own food, so they dont have to be paid as much. etc.  You just dont have these economic conditions commonly in the US at least.  
 
The building seems to change with the times, so it can just accomadate any needed changes, so you will never need to build a new potions lab or whatever.  These are a lot of things that you will never see happening in real life.  Because of this, it is hard to use a real life example to explain how Hogwarts works.
 
My own personal view of how Hogwarts gets the money it needs is either through taxes or an endowment, although I lean towards the taxes because I envision the wizarding world to be a fairly socialistic society, run along the lines of Sweden.  (if you want me to explain why, ask and I'll do it when I have time) this would account for everyone getting a free ride for schooling.  And possibly explain the whole centeralized goverment thing.
 
laxer


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