Timeline for Who takes care of the Squibs' education expenses in Muggle schools?
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| Sep 3, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | Jetpack | If a squib goes to a state school, there's still a question of who pays for it. Maybe it's entirely muggle-funded, or maybe the Ministry of Magic always pays a certain amount to the Department of Education, or maybe that family has to file for muggle taxes for those years (serves them right for daring to give birth to a squib). Rowling will get so many readers if she ever gets around to writing a book covering all the intricacies of tax policy, intergovernmental funding, regulatory compliance, and personal identification between the muggle and magical populations. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 15:12 | history | edited | Chronocidal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 14:46 | comment | added | Adamant | @Chronocidal - That was not what the scene indicated at all. It shows that the magical government is a completely parallel government that does not answer to the Prime Minister, that does not share information with them, except on a few occasions and not in much depth, and that even puts spies in the Muggle government (such as Shacklebolt). | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 11:51 | comment | added | Chronocidal | (Also, in the UK, Free Education for Children is a Right, even for undocumented individuals such as illegal immigrants. So, the British Government already pay for the education of people who don't "officially" exist in the country) | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 11:48 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @Shreedhar As we see in "Chapter One: The Other Minister" of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the Ministry of Magic (while acting in many ways as a Devolved Government, like the Scottish Parliament, et cetera) is answerable to the UK Government; any citizen of the British Wizarding Community is then, transitively, a citizen of the United Kingdom. I.e., it's the Ministry of Magic, not the Country of Magic. (As opposed to MACUSA, which is separate from the US Government) Some laws will apply, others won't. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 11:39 | comment | added | Shreedhar | Ariana was just an example. And I don't think Muggle laws (education laws etc.) apply to the wizards. We are not even sure if the muggle laws are applicable to squibs (that's a question closely related to my OP). | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 11:37 | comment | added | Shreedhar | However, why would the British government pay for a person's education who doesn't actually exist. No wizard is registered at the muggle government. The first point doesn't add up. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 11:28 | history | answered | Chronocidal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |