[HPforGrownups] Re: Out of term activity at Hogwarts

[Danger Mouse]

No: HPFGUIDX 75407

Dawn:
I'm too lack-of-sleep befuddled to figure out where I read this, 
but someone recently made comment about Loony Luna not being on the 
train at the end of the academic year, and would students be allowed 
to wander around Hogwarts during the Summer Holidays?  Would there 
still be any staff around?

Faith says:
Sybil Trelawny claims that Hogwarts is her home, so presumably she 
lives there all year round; perhaps a significant number of other 
teachers do, as well.  A fair number of them are always around 
throughout all the other holidays, easter, christmas etc.  If they 
had homes and families to go to, you'd think they would go for 
Christmas lunch at least, but Snape, McGonagall, Dumbledore, Trelawny 
all seem pretty much ever present.  

Dan:
So there is probably some staff floating around (Hagrid too, of course), but why would some students be allowed? Are Terry Boot and Ernie MacMillan orphans? Perhaps Dumbledore is letting them choose to stay at school for that reason, after the whole Evil thing happened to Tom Riddle in that orphanage of his.

-Dan

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