Single Adults in HP

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 18240

Jenny wrote:
Why is everyone single?  I have my own opinions about it, but I'd
like to hear others' thoughts.

Amy wrote:
"Jo did recently say that the teachers' marital status is significant 
and will come up.  Does anyone want to venture a theory about what 
that might mean?"

--I thought of this too, but I'm not entirely sure what she meant by 
it, though my money's on Snape. I don't think he's married, but he 
may have been in the past. Here's a thouhgt- could V. have killed 
Snape's wife (whomever she may have been) for some reason and that's 
why he became a spy for Dumbledore?


Amy wrote:
"Okay, there are a lot of frumps (Sprout), over-70's (Dumble, 
McGonagall, Flitwick), and plain old scaries (Trelawney), but what 
about Lockhart, Lupin, and Quirrell?  There's no comment on Lupin's 
or Quirrell's attractiveness or lack thereof, just that they're 
young, and we know Lupin is a favorite teacher of many, which one 
would think would lead to some crushes.  Lockhart, we know, is 
supposed to be a bit of a hunk.  Don't the students wonder whether 
these guys are married, have girlfriends, etc.?  And they'd probably 
be curious about the older teachers' kids, if not their marriages."

--Not a good group to have crushes on, huh? As for Harry et al even 
if they aren't curious enough to find out then they're likely not to 
know. In my own experience with teachers I've had some whose 
relationships I never knew, to teachers whose relationships I knew 
(and often I saw and knew them on another level besides school) to 
teachers whose weddings I've attended. It all really depends on the 
level of personal involvement a student has with that teacher, and 
the only teachers Harry really knows out of class are Hagrid and 
Lupin, and neither of those is married. I don't think it's all that 
suprising that we don't know, but I think we'll hear more on this in 
the future.
 
Scott