Where do teachers live?

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 97067

Potioncat wrote:
> > > I also think it's funny that the  students seem to think that the 
> > > teachers live in their  offices.  I'm sure they have very nice 
> > > quarters  somewhere in the castle with bathrooms that make the 
> > >  prefects' facilities look spartan!
Well, we do have canon that in some cases teachers seem to have  accomodation 
very close to their offices, I think.
JKR does actually say in OoP (239, UK ed) that Lockhart had "lived" in  
Umbridge's office. I suppose the fact that Lupin was packing a *suitcase* in his  
office just before he left, doesn't necessarily mean that he kept his clothes  
there, but it implies it.
For Lockhart, the evidence is stronger:
"His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood  open on the floor. Robes, jade-green, lilac, midnightblue, had
been hastily  folded into one of them; "
and again,
"Well, as to that - most unfortunate -" said Lockhart, avoiding  their
eyes as he wrenched open a drawer and started emptying the  contents
into a bag. "No one regrets more than I -"

"You're the  Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher!" said Harry.
"You can't go now! Not  with all the Dark stuff going on here!"

"Well - I must say - when I took  the job -" Lockhart muttered, now
piling socks on top of his robes. "nothing  in the job description - didn't
expect -"
which certainly implies that he had a sock drawer in his office.
Then again, when Trelawney is sacked (P526, UK ed), the impliction  (although 
it is not specified) is that her "lodgings" are connected to her room  in the 
North Tower, as Dumbledore makes the point that the new divination  teacher 
will prefer lodgings on the ground floor. Also on Christmas Day, in PoA  ( P 
169, UK pb) she sees herself abandoning her solitary luncheon in her  crystal 
ball and "hastened from her tower" which was evidently where she  was spending 
the day and planning to eat until then.
> > BA: 
> > 
> > I don't think the students /do/  think that. It's a common turn of 
> > phrase.  When I visit a  friend at their offices for the first time,
> > I will ask "Where do  you live?'"  or when in an unfamiliar kitchen 
> > will say "Where  does the  mustard live?"
> > 
> > It's certainly made  clear in PoA that Snape does not live in his 
> > office.
No, but In GoF he is in his nightshirt when he heard banging and the  egg 
wailing and he *passes his office* on the way to the commotion at the foot  of 
the stairs, the implication to me being that they are in close  proximity.
There is mention somewhere of "The Charms Corridor". I wonder if  some or all 
of the teachers have suites of rooms comprising, a classroom,  an office and 
living accommodation, all in close proximity, possibly with office  and 
sleeping quarters interconnecting (though apparently not in Snape's  case)
I'm not sure about the en-suite facilities that Steve suggests the  teachers 
have. Given that Dumbledore found the Room of Requirement when he took  a 
wrong turn to the bathroom at 5.30 am, either he gets up very early or he  doesn't 
have a private bathroom.

~Eloise


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