Marriages [skipped : Hermione&Ron/Logicvs.Emotions

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No: HPFGUIDX 37553

Finwitch replied to Theresa Lazyscientist:

> Well - I believe Albus Dumbledore *was* married, but his wife's 
> been long dead. (Supposedly she used to knit wollen, grey socks for
> him Muggle Way - Love by every loop.

OOOH! Who besides me said that his late wife knitted socks for him?!

> And I do think Albus had several children (who also had children) -
> so that AD would be grandfather. Somehow he just seems to me as a 
> 'sweet grandfather'-type. Found balance between Mind and Emotion.

Dumbledore being 150 years old, his grand-children could possibly be 
Great-grand-parents themselves.

> Minerva McGonagall is not, I think. It might even be that she's one 
> of the grandchildren of AD who did not marry or have kids. Just the
> sort of woman who's never been married and never will.(snip)  Madam
> Hooch? I think she *is* married. And so's Poppy Pomfrey.

McGonagall is 70, so Dumbledore is 80 years older than her,  
and *could* be her Great-grand-father.

I strongly believe that McGonagall and Hooch ARE a long-time married 
couple (altho' childless). They keep it secret from the students and 
probably the parents out of either fear of homophobia or McGonagall's 
sense of privacy. I see McGonagall as very much like a cat, very 
strictly maintaining her dignity and privacy in public, very curious 
but cautious, she can defend herself (and her kittens i.e. the 
Gryffindor students -- Mother cats discipline their young-uns with 
those claws), but in private quite appreciative of sensual pleasures 
such as a hot bubblebath, backrub, etc. I also see her as the 
dominant personality in that partnership.

I believe that Poppy Pomfrey is married to Herb Pomfrey, a 
herbologist -- they met in the course of their professions -- and is 
a grand-mother or great-grandmother. (I'm sure Pomfrey is at least 
as old as McGonagall, who thinks she's older?)

Their children being too grown-up to need to be cared for, not even 
help with babysitting anymore, Poppy and Herb were free to give their 
house to a descendent and continue their careers. Poppy took this 
respected but residential job at Hogwarts (where she may be having an 
affair with Dumbledore) and Herb has a job that involves constant 
travel around the British Isles giving lectures. They get together 
over the Christmas and summer holidays, each time at the home of 
another one of their numerous adult descendent.

> Severus Snape- no. Logical, much like McGonagall... If I were Amor,
> I'd put those two together!

He may think he's logical, but he's a terribly emotional person, 
flying into rages and projecting his feelings onto other people. He's 
far too bitter to be good marriage material. Nonetheless, people have 
paired him with McGonagall, Dumbledore, Filch, and Draco (usually not 
at the same time), and other people have said he will never love 
again because of having lost his first love, possibly Lily, Mrs. 
Lestrange, Lucius...

Also, he's said to be 35 or 36, same ratio of his age to Minerva's as 
of Minerva's to Albus's. How much does relative age matter to Ships?

> Remus Lupin, Sirius Black - no.

> Quirrell, Lockhart, Moody, Crouch - no. Hmm... No DADA teacher so 
far - will the next one be - *Mrs.* Figg?

Lycanthropy for one Marauder, Azkaban for the other. I like to be a 
Sirius/Remus shipper, anyway. And young Crouch was in Azkaban since 
he was 19. If he had been married then (not likely), his young wife 
probably got an annulment and tried to go on with her life and forget 
about him. Would it have been a Death Eater girl? Then why wasn't she 
in the torture-the-Longbottoms conspiracy, too? 

As for real Moody, all we really know is that he was a great Auror, 
lost a number of body parts, and became paranoid. He could have been 
married and his spouse was killed in an attack on him, maybe the one 
that took off his leg. That would increase a person's paranoia.

I *hope* Quirrell was single! Imagine if he was married, if he left a 
young wife and a baby or two at home when he went to Albania on a 
research trip, if he seems a little distracted when he returns home 
and quickly rushes off 'to prepare for the school year' and the next 
thing she knows, he's dead as a result of having been taken over by 
Evil!

Lockhart is too stuck on himself to marry for any reason other than 
career advantange. He would only marry if marriage to that person was 
more advantageous than being an 'eligible bachelor'. I could imagine 
him being married to Rita Skeeter (each could help the other's 
career). There is no sign of Lockhart/Skeeter in canon, but 
memory-wiping her husband would be something that Skeeter could be 
annoyed at Harry for.

> Prof. Sprout - married.

I agree. I suppose that her children are grown. Who thinks she might 
live in Hogsmeade with her husband? ... or live anywhere with her 
husband and Floo to Hogsmeade. Floo makes commuting easier. But she 
is Head of Hufflepuff House and therefore probably needs to be 
available at any hour of day or night if there is an emergency. Same 
age as McGonagall or older? Or younger?