*FROM THE STORY:
"Albus Dumbledore was not having a good week. On the fifteenth of October, the Board of Governors had reconvened, and they were demanding an explanation for the sixty missing students. The concern of the meeting was more the lack of tuition, to the tune of nearly thirty-five thousand Galleons, that accompanied the students’ departure, rather than the loss of the students themselves. That gold would have funded the school for the year as well as certain ‘traditional and expected stipends’ to some of the members of the board. With the gold having been withdrawn, those traditional bribes couldn’t be paid, and Dumbledore was in the hot-seat."*
If 60 students payed for the upkeep of Hogwarts, how manny students were left after Harry and his group left Hogwarts and where did the money of the remaning students go twords?
Great story.
Looking for more real soon.
Author's response
The 60 missing students only account for a small portion of he students, (My estimation is about 1200), but the mugglebornes pay a disproportionate share of the costs.
(Muggleborne/yr= G580, Half-blood/yr=G386, Pureblood/yr=G193.)
If the student proportion is roughly one third each Mugleborne, half-blood and pureblood, the total comes to G463600/yr, or nearly US$16 million/yr, of which the mugglebornes pay G232000 or a bit over US$8 million. (just under half.)
Since magic is used for nearly everything there, the only thing the tuition is really for is supplies and bribes. Without that extra G34800 (or 1.2 million dollars), the school won't be as well prepared to pay those bribes.
Every wonder why a school of such prestige, has such crappy brooms?
Alorkin