Essentially, Hogwarts acted as a public school funded by the government, or in this case, the governing body for the magical community. Despite not being confirmed, it was likely the Ministry collected taxes similar to the real world in order to allocate money to Hogwarts, who in turn paid their staff adequate salaries while keeping the school up and running. Granted, the exact number of those salaries is still unknown, but the staff was likely paid in Galleons, the primary currency for the wizard community.
Hogwarts, of course, took the educational experience a bit farther than most ordinary public schools by providing a place to live for much of the school year. In addition, they provided meals and other essentials. Granted, students were required to provide some of their own supplies such as wands, robes, broomsticks, and textbooks. Even though Hogwarts students had it better than most, Harry Potter proved the Ministry didn't have the funds to cover all costs.
Kara Hedash is a features editor and writer for Screen Rant. Any excess earnings are typically reinvested to augment the endowment. This spending figure represents the proportion that historically could be spent without diminishing the principal amount of the endowment fund.
Show 14 more comments. AndrewM AndrewM 51 1 1 bronze badge. Even Trinity College charges its students fees. DJClayworth Trinity doesn't really need to charge fees, except that 1 other poorer Cambridge colleges would complain about the unfair competition for the best students and 2 because of 1 there are strict limits on what endowment funds can be spent on. On the whole, I think some kind of government funding is most likely. Government funding is a bit suspect though can't be ruled out due to seeming autonomy of Hogwarts for most of its time.
He who pays the band Actually governments rarely interfere with schools they fund at the detailed level. School headmasters are appointed by school boards, not governments. DVK: I think Hogwarts' seeming autonomy is just that: seeming.
If the Ministry is being run by sane heads, they know better than to stick their noses in where they're not needed. But as Dolores Umbrage demonstrates, the Ministry can actually do whatever it wants to do with Hogwarts. There is proof that food, at least, is not a problem: "It's impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can can transform it, you can increase the quantity if you've already got some - " Deathly Hallows, Chapter Emphasis is mine So it is entirely possible that there at least some wizards who don't need to worry about food, and it is extremely likely that Hogwarts would have some of these.
There is at least one sentence in the books to disprove this statement: Mrs. Goblet Of Fire, Chapter 5. Felix Lange Felix Lange 2 2 bronze badges. Good find! But personally I'd simply interpret that as the sauce being "siphoned off" from pre-made jar or from ingredients. You cannot transfigure food from nothing or thin air -- it is one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration. Rowling has explained that one can make food disappear in one part of, say, a house and reappear in another.
So like when McGonagall transfigures a plate of sandwiches and pumpkin juice in Snape's office in CoS , she has really made the sandwiches and juice disappear from the kitchens and reappear in Snape's office. Same thing for when the food in the Great Hall magically appears on the students' plates. Even if it's not possible to create food, it can still be duplicated. This means they could simply grow a small quantity of everything they need and then replicate until there's enough for everybody.
That's just speculation, though. FelixLange What evidence is there that it can be duplicated? Soul Soul 31 1 1 bronze badge. In conclusion, hogwarts is a private school, with government funding, with a governing board. Vanya Uspensky Vanya Uspensky 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.
Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Upcoming Events. November Topic Challenge: Samuel R. Delany ends Nov From there, the family fortune was bequeathed to Harry, after James and Lily Potter were killed.
Looks like Harry Potter's kids, Albus Severus and James Sirius , could stand to inherit quite a bit of money from their dad. Though probably not as much as J. Rowling's children. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App.
Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Remember, though, that Quality Quidditch Supplies also stocks used brooms for those on a budget. Madam Hooch might have one going spare if you ask nicely, too. Back in , the average Hogwarts textbook from Flourish and Blotts cost between 1 and 5 Galleons. That means wetting your whistle in the Three Broomsticks Inn, a wizarding pub renowned for one drink and one drink only: butterbeer.
After forking out over a grand for a broomstick, you might not fancy splurging more on travel. What we do know is that Hagrid gives Harry a ticket in his first year and that there is a conductor aboard the Hogwarts Express charged with checking them. Given the cost of other UK boarding schools, you might be braced for eye-watering sums here.
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