re Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 147486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "deborahhbbrd" <hubbada at ...> wrote:

 - are all paid for out of the
> school's investments, as are various prizes and awards. These come
> from Old Boys who have remembered the place in their wills, mostly, or
> just made bequests of some kind while still alive. Out of gratitude
> ... So, can we imagine that in a society where a Lucius Malfoy can
> make himself famous and popular by giving well targeted donations,
> some more moral people would like to help their old school along? 

I'm sure that many wizarding folk have donated, or bequeathed,
donations to Hogwarts--starting, in all likelihood, with Godric
Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw. (Salazar Slytherin
broke with his fellow Founders on the question of pure-bloodedness,
not private means.)  
> 
> Perhaps, too, deserving cases like the Weasleys might get, not exactly
> bulk discounts, but some kind of subvention with the fees?
> 
Such financial assistance definitely exists at Hogwarts. According to
Dumbledore in HBP, Ch. 13, "There is a fund at Hogwarts for those who
require assistance to buy books and robes" (p. 274 Scholastic).  He
said this while giving a Tom Riddle a pouch of money, including at
least one gold Galleon. Tom (in another early sign of manners, or the
lack thereof) didn't bother to say "Thank you."

> Deborah, enjoying the nuts and bolts and wishing we got more little
> snippets of information here and there. Or that we could read
> Hogwarts, A History!
>
Ah, for JK Rowling to make that a post-Potter writing project!

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