sex and the faculty recruitment problem at Hogworts...

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1382

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed (or am I wrong) that all the Hogwarts 
> professors seem to be single (or divorced or widowed?)..none of them
> have a visible partner...? and none of them have kids.....!

People keep noticing that and offering it as proof that the wizard 
folk have low sex drive leading to serious population decline. I 
think it is not true that all of the teachers are single: I think 
McGonagall and Hooch have been a couple since they were in their 
early 20s (and that they used to have a series of pet cats 
all named Tommy until Minnie became an Animagus and Hoochie got 
irrationally jealous that Minnie and Tommy might be talking behind 
her back in Cat --- which I suggested long before someone else 
suggested that Crookshanks might be McGonagall's lovechild!). I think 
Madam Pomfrey is a grandma and spends the summers with her husband; 
just because she doesn't visit any of her grandchildren at Christmas 
doesn't prove she doesn't have grandchildren -- maybe they're just 
all migrated to different countries.