Os fundadores de Hogwarts tinham fundos de pessoas diferentes, mas não tinham financiamento de nenhuma forma de governo.
O cartão Wizard da Helga Hufflepuff, de acordo com o antigo site da JKR, é o seguinte,
"[s]he brought people from different walks of life together to help build Hogwarts and was loved for her charming ways."
De acordo com o estabelecimento do Ministério da Magia, ele é denominado como 1707 em pottermore
The Ministry of Magic was formally established in 1707 with the appointment of the very first man to hold the title 'Minister for Magic', Ulick Gamp.
Prior to 1707, the Wizards' Council was the longest serving (though not the only) body to govern the magical community in Britain. After the imposition of the International Statute of Secrecy in 1692, however, the wizarding community needed a more highly structured, organized and more complex governing structure than they had hitherto used, to support, regulate and communicate with a community in hiding. Only witches and wizards who enjoyed the title of 'Minister for Magic' are included in this entry.
O estabelecimento do Conselho dos Bruxos não é claro, mas não foi mencionado antes de 1269 em qualquer lugar, então podemos supor que ainda não foi formado durante o estabelecimento de Hogwarts, que estava em / antes de 933
The Wizards' Council was the predecessor to the Ministry of Magic (FBx). Barberus Bragge was the Chief of the Council in 1269.
O estabelecimento de Hogwarts foi devido à crescente desconfiança por parte dos trouxas. Assim, os fundadores não pediriam ao governo dos trouxas fundos suficientes.
Além disso, a história da Grã-Bretanha durante o estabelecimento de Hogwarts está muito perturbada porque de invasões vikings, podemos supor que durante esta guerra entre Alfred de Wessex e Vikings, os magos da região da Inglaterra se sentiram ameaçados e começaram a entrar em sigilo.
Late in the 8th cent., and with increasing severity until the middle of the 9th cent., raiding Vikings (known in English history as Danes) harassed coastal England and finally, in 865, launched a full-scale invasion. They were first effectively checked by King Alfred of Wessex and were with great difficulty confined to the Danelaw, where their leaders divided land among the soldiers for settlement. Alfred's successors conquered the Danelaw to form a united England, but new Danish invasions late in the 10th cent. overcame ineffective resistance . The Dane Canute ruled all England by 1016. At the expiration of the Scandinavian line in 1042, the Wessex dynasty (see Edward the Confessor) regained the throne. The conquest of England in 1066 by William, duke of Normandy (William I of England), ended the Anglo-Saxon period.