Ten Things I Want for My Birthday

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The
Healing Force)" <n2fgc at a...> wrote:
> | From: joywitch_m_curmudgeon
> | Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 19:18 PM
> |
> | 1.  The McGonagall/Hootch ship!  (Just mention that they live
> | together, that's all I ask.)
> 
> [Lee, shaking head]:
> Uh--Huh?  And what if Hootch is really a grandmother and spends her 
> summers with her grandkids and husband...who just might be Professor
> Flitwick? :-)

I think you might have Madam Hooch confused with Professor Sprout,
whom I believe to be a great-grandma (wizards live longer than
Muggles, altho' Dumbledore being 150 is almost the only sign we've
seen of that). I imagine her husband is not Professor Flitwick but
rather a noted explorer and plant-discoverer (Ben Sprout? Basil
Sprout?) who is out in foreign jungles during the school year.

My current theory is that Professor Sprout's personal name is Beatrix
('Beety'), her maiden name was Pollan, her son is named Alf and her
daughters are Acacia and Jacaranda. I don't know how many descendents
she lost in The Bad Years (my name for Vold War I). 

I have been certain that McGonagall and Hooch are a couple, and
unobtrusively live together in the professorial lodging in Hogwarts
Castle, for a very long time. Before GoF was published. Before there
was even one movie.