Summary - Hogwarts castle, grounds and lake

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 29597

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Cindy wrote:
> > > I am starting to think that the teachers really just live right 
> there 
> > > in their offices during the school year.  
> > 
> Calypso wrote:
> > In Goblet of Fire there's also a scene where Harry looks at the 
map 
> and sees 
> > Crouch prowling around Snape's office. Barty Jr. had broken in. 
> That 
> > eliminates the possibility of their actual offices being their 
> homes. Perhaps 
> > there are rooms adjacent to the offices or near the offices.
> > 
Cindy again:
> Good catch!  I'm not sure what to make of this passage, though.  
> Harry sees Barty Jr. in Snape's office.  Then Filch comes when 
Harry 
> drops the egg.  Then Snape comes, wearing a nightshirt.  Then:
> 
> "I heard banging and wailing . . . I was coming to investigate . .  
> and when I passed my office, I saw the torches were lit and a 
> cupboard door was ajar!  Somebody has been searching it!"
> 
> So where was Snape before he heard the egg?  

Snape was in the kitchen, getting a midnight snack of tomato juice 
and lamb chops, rare.  With ketchup.

Getting back to the teacher's housing question, I've always imagined
that all their offices have another door, which is magically hidden 
from the student's eyes, which leads to each of their private 
apartments.  McGonagall's has a lot of knitted stuff and is very 
neat.  Snape's apartment, like his office, is full of yucky things 
floating in bottles.  Sprout's is, of course, filled with plants and 
kind of dirty, Flitwick's is packed full of books and Lupin's is 
sparsely furnished.  Each apartment has a sitting room, a bedroom and 
a bathroom.  McGonagall's has a nice, comfortable bathtub.

--Joywitch, founder of Snape's Unquestionably A Vampire Evil
(S.U.A.V.E.)