Quote:I'm not so sure about this. If such a system were in place, I'd pretty much expect the rich pure blood separatists like the Malfoys and their ilk to object to subsidizing (or paying outright for, from another viewpoint) the education of poorer students, many of whom would be Mudbloods. They'd more likely split off and start their own private school; it might be as or more expensive, but they would get to control its course of studies and (just as importantly) its selectivity.
Of course, the school could also be set up on an "ability to pay" scale, where folks like the Malfoys have to pay a tuition, while the Weasley's, with their very large family which eats well into Weasly Sr's income, would not.
No, the more I think about it, the more I think that Hogwarts and its counterparts are "free" "public" institutions.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.