Which Hogwarts teachers are married ? Xmas clues

a_reader2003 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Mon Dec 15 15:54:39 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 87116

A piece of seasonal detective work..

JKR has suggested that some of the teachers at Hogwarts are married, 
and out of curiosity, and in the best Agatha Christie alibi-checking 
style, I looked at the Christmas scenes in each of the books to see 
if this might give us a clue as to who stayed at home with their 
partner rather than stay at the school.

PS (p.149 UK edition) 
DD, Flitwick, Hagrid and McGonagall are the only ones specifically 
named as being at the feast, although the text does mention that 100 
turkeys were cooked, so it sounds a large meal

CoS (p.159 UK edition)
This time only DD and Hagrid are specifically named as being there.

PoA (p.168)
This is the infamous 13 people at the feast, the first to get up is 
the first to die
 At this table, DD, McGonagall, Snape, Sprout, 
Flitwick, Trelawny and Filch are the only Hogwarts staff specifically 
mentioned.

GoF (p. 357 UK edition)
Not only is this another 100-turkey event, but the circumstances are 
a little different with the Triwizard competition and the Yule Ball.  
However, only McGonagall, DD, Hagrid, Sinistra, Snape and Sprout are 
specifically mentioned as being there.

OoP (p.443 UK edition)
We can't tell anything from this book, as the trio were at 12 
Grimmauld Place with Sirius.

Teachers conspicuously missing from this list are:

Professor Binns (but then he is a ghost
but what happens if your 
wizard husband dies and becomes a ghost ? Does he come back to be a 
spectre at the family Xmas feast ??!)
Professor Grubbly-Plank (but we all know she was with Madame Hooch !)
Madame Hooch (see above !)
Professor Kettleburn (he didn't retire until the end of CoS)
Professor Lockhart (only could have been there for one Xmas, but 
wasn't mentioned)
Professor Lupin (again, only there for one year, and if the staff had 
spent all the previous term knowingly eating with a werewolf, I don't 
see why they shouldn't have shared their Christmas dinner with him 
)
Madame Pince 
Madame Pomfrey
Professor Quirrell (only there for one last year, but not mentioned 
at the feast in PS)
Professor Vector (we don't know if this is a witch or a wizard, and 
never mentioned except in passing in any of the books)

Of course, it is boring to write in long lists every time, so 
authorial selectivity must be taken into account. However, a few 
clues here I think.

What price any of the teachers being married to someone at the MoM ??

Carolyn






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