[HPforGrownups] Re: Staying over at Christmas

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 387

At 15:50 08/28/2000 -0000, you wrote:

>Just because the teachers are there at Christmas, doesn't mean they 
>are staying or living at Hogwarts the school.  They may indeed have 
>quarters there, especially the Heads of Houses - in fact those almost 
>certainly do, since they are around late at night -  but is there any 
>reason the others don't live in Hogsmeade, and come up to school for 
>Christms feast, for the same reason anyone might go out to dinner on 
>such a holiday?   The other Profs don't *have* to go far away like
>the students - most teachers live in towns near their schools anywhere
>you go, right?
>
>In other words they may not be so cloistered as we assume.

You may be right about that, but IMO it would make it even more surprising
that we haven't seen a husband or wife of one of the teachers, so far.  The
Yule Ball springs to mind as a good opportunity to have mentioned one or two
'extras'.  If they had quarters in the school or lived in Hogsmeade, isn't
also likely that they'd get involved in school life now and again (wasn't
Mrs Chipping often entertaining the pupils in ..."Mr Chips"?).  Anyway, I
seem to be doing this 'lonely teachers' theory to death... I'll shut up now.

Neil 
            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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