[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore/Snape/spouse theory

[Rose Woofenden]

No: HPFGUIDX 14237

>It makes me wonder who is married and where these spouses/families 
>reside. It's conceivable that the Hogwarts has apartments located 
>somewhere on the grounds. Just as it is conceivable the married 
>professors live in Hogsmeade.
>
>From what little we know in the 4 books, McGonagall has broken up a 
>Gryffindor party while dressed in her dressing gown. Which gives me 
>the impression that her apartments are near the Gryffindor tower. I 
>could imagine hubby telling her "I need to apparate early in the 
>morning for that meeting in Bangkok. Please, tell those children to go 
>to bed. And if they don't listen to you, I'll go there myself!"
>
>As for Snape, he too has been walking about Hogwarts at night in his 
>night shirt. So I suspect he doesn't live too far from the Slytherin 
>dungeon. I have two feelings about husband Snape. Either he's totally 
>henpecked by his wife or he's the epitome of a loving husband and 
>doting father (if there are children involved). 

I think it would/could perhaps be different for Snape and McGonagall then
the other teachers, since they are heads of the houses. As the head of the
house they would probably be required to live near or in the dorms, much
like a dorm mother in a US college.  They would need to be there to settle
late night pillow fights and send students to be etc. It wouldn't quite work
if they lived in Hogsmede. 

But I think that the other teachers could really live anywhere. They could
Apperate into Hogsmeade, and then go to Hogwarts from there. Or just live in
Hogsmeade. 

Another thing somewhat on the same lines that I've been thinking about is
the chaprone/dorm parent thing. Do we know if there are other adults that
live in or near the dorms as dorm parents. It just seems a little strange to
me that there is only one person in charge of each dorm, when there are at
least a few dozen students, male and female. I know in a school here in the
US there are many dorm parents. Does anyone have any information/insights on
the subject?


-Rose

        "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but
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