House Sleeping Arrangements (was Re: Dumbledore/Snape/spouse theory)

[absinthe at mad.scientist.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 14254

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rose Woofenden <rosewoof at e...> wrote:

> 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?

Maybe the House Prefects act as Resident Assistants, in the US 
University sense. In my college, we had RAs(resident assistants) who 
were undergraduate students and we had RCs (resident coordinators) who 
were graduate students and were the liasons between the Dean of 
Students and the dorm system.

:-)Milz