Out of term activity at Hogwarts

hp_lexicon steve at hp-lexicon.org
Mon Aug 4 06:09:11 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 75160


> 
> <<   That's the conclusion I'd come to as well, although I was 
more 
> pointing out the canon evidence of both students and a member of 
> staff being in Hogwarts during the holidays as a reply to their 
> original query.  

According to Rowling in her interview with the Southwest News, no on 
stays at Hogwarts during the summer except Filch:

Q: Where do the Hogwarts teachers live during the school holidays ? 
Do they stay at Hogwarts? (Andrew Zimmer)
A: No, they don't. Filch, the caretaker, stays.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0700-
swns-alfie.htm

I don't believe that the list of names in the front of QA is 
accurate. The book, according to Dumbledore in the introduction, was 
copied for use by Muggles, and I expect that the checkout names and 
dates were added arbitrarily and not copied from an actual checkout 
record. At any rate, we know that Madam Pince doesn't stay at 
Hogwarts during the summer. Kind of makes you wonder where they all 
go, though. 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon





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