Re: McGonagall's hubby (was significance in McGonagall’s years of service)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 79033

<<<"Susan Smith" wrote:...I also suspect that other staff members 
have married within the staff, too.  It is natural this would happen 
when most have been there 14 or more years...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

It seems that most people are used to teachers who are regular people 
who teach, and thus should mostly be married, but I wonder if the 
school system JKR is referencing is more like US Catholic schools; 
back in my young days, most of the teachers were members of celibate 
religious orders, so that married teachers were the exception rather 
than the rule. Prof. McGonagal is *so* Sister Mary Discipline, and 
Father Matthias (note wizardy-odd first name) Lynch, the first parish 
priest I remember, was Albus Dubledore without the twinkle...

--JDR