Paying for Hogwarts

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "alora" <chrisnlorrie at y...> wrote:
> Does one pay for Hogwarts?  Yes, Harry has a small fortune in gold 
> in Gringotts, but we never see or hear how Hagrid/Harry pays tuition 
> to go to Hogwarts.  I thought about the Weasleys, and how many 
> books, parchments, quills, robes etc that they need, and how much 
> that must cost.  Add to that actual tuition and it must cost a small 
> fortune!  How does a poorer family make it?  

Apart from endowments, how about Muggle taxes?  After all, every child in Britain is 
entitled to a free education - and if the only school that can cater for a child's special 
educational (magical) needs is a boarding school, wouldn't the child's local education 
authority have to pay for that?  The WW is not totally separate from Muggle society - a 
significant proportion of Hogwarts pupils have Muggle parents.  The Ministry of Magic is a 
branch of the UK government - Fudge liaises with the Muggle prime minister (Major, I 
suppose) occasionally.  And Gringotts can change Muggle money into Galleons, as we see 
Hermione's parents doing.

Which raises the question of whether wizards pay Muggle income tax, council tax etc... I 
have the feeling JKR really really doesn't want to get into that. :)

Eleanor