Madame Hooch and Clandestine Marriages

[Clare Johnson]

No: HPFGUIDX 42577

Kangasboy has just opened a thrilling Pandora's box with his comment

*Now I realise that there is a problem with the list of unregistered
animagi, and I think it highly unlikely that we'd have another
unregistered animagus. However, there are a number of ways
around this: What if Madame Hooch is married, and registered
before she got married? We are unaware of her first name, plus
JKR in an interview (I forget which), refused to answer a question
concerning the marital status of the Hogwarts teacher. Plus she
is a 'Madame", which if I remember my French properly, which is
the equivalent of "Mrs".*

Yes!!!  More enticing avenues of subterfuge and metathinking now open up as
we start to consider who Madame's Hooch's husband could be.  To me, there
aren't enough outdoor types (apart from Charlie Weasley and Hagrid, neither
of whom are credible because I feel that we'll want Charlie for romantic
interest  later and Hagrid's faithful nature (so his courtship of Madame
Maxime wouldn't fit) and his total inability to keep a secret without
dropping hints to his 50 most intimate friends (much as I like Hagrid) to
make this kind of match.  I suppose Ludo Bagman as an ex-Quidditch player
is a possibility but can anyone see the forthright Madame Hooch putting up
with Ludo's flakiness, untrustworthiness and the general shambles that he
creates in his wake?  So then we are left with the attraction of opposites,
as we have never seen Madame Hooch fraternising with anyone as I can recall.
Of course, we may not yet have met the gallant wizard (or other!) but she
does bring a strong breath of the outside world into Hogwarts for me.

Hoping someone will join me in speculating!

Clareysage.