[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts: "We don't drown in sex appeal"

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 8633

Jim Ferer wrote:

> I thought that the English boarding school has always been depicted in
> the arts as something of a monastic lifestyle, from Tom Brown's School
> Days on.  Besides, when I was going to school, the teachers didn't
> look sexy to me.  When I went back to a school as an adult, I wondered
> what the heck happened since I was a kid.

As someone who did go to boarding school in the UK ('94-'00), let me stress
(ahem) that we never considered our teachers in any way monastic. Of course,
there was the (married) Geography teacher who was asked to leave for boffing
the (unmarried) Art mistress (who did look *great* in a swimsuit, btw), the
Modern Languages teacher who had sex with one of my friends (over 18, don't
worry...), not to mention the extremely crushworthy Mr Cadogan... ::swoon::
And, of course, there were several married couples who both taught at the
school. 5 out of 6 Housemasters were married, with their wives taking an
active role as Houseparent.

Of course, the Hogwarts model is different -- much more like the
stereotypical boarding school (not that that's a bad thing): hardly
unsurprising since JKR never actually went to boarding school.

Just my 4 million euros ($.02).

--John

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John Walton     john at walton.to

In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
"Come the millennium, month 12
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."
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