re Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy

[truthbeauty1]

No: HPFGUIDX 147493

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "deborahhbbrd" <hubbada@> wrote:
> >
> > Olivierfouquet raises the point of how Hogwarts is funded.
> > Presumably it would be in the Ministry's interests to keep it
> > afloat, ...
  
 I could be wrong, but many instances in the books have led me to
believe that there is tuition. When Tom Riddle says he doens't have
any money, Dumbledore said there is a fund for students with financial
difficulty. I don't believe that this fund is simply for supplies,
thought like many scholarshpis, it would cover that as well. I believe
that tuition is one of the reasons that the Weasley's are soo poor.
Sending 7 children thru private school would upset anyone's bank
account. Tuition would also explain why some magical citizens never
went to Hogwarts. Stan Shunpike for one, appears to have never gone to
school. Maybe he couldnt afford it, and his family was too prideful to
accept charity. I am not saying that there aren't large donations that
help with the costs, but I just always felt that the students were
paying to go.