Where do teachers live?

[Meredith]

No: HPFGUIDX 97105

> Siriusly Snapey Susan wrote:
> <snip>That lack of attention to personal hygiene activities by JKR 
is one 
> of the more bizarre things about the books, imho.  I mean, they're 
> already hundreds & hundreds of pages long, and adding in every 
> episode of applying deodorant or running in for a pitstop would 
only 
> lengthen them, but still.  NEVER a mention of a shower after 
> Quidditch practice or brushing teeth before bed or a girl brushing 
> out her freshly-shampooed hair? <snip>


Luckie:
I've often wondered the same thing. Seeing Harry wake up in the 
morning and put on his robes, that probably spent the night on the 
floor, before running to breakfast, on a morning after quidditch 
practice makes me shudder. It can be excused when the boys are 11, 
but they're 15 now and hopefully bathe more often. I originally 
wanted to explain this away with magic - afterall, in the RW it would 
be nice to have a spell where you could feel like you had just 
stepped out of the shower. I'd like to be able to point a wand at my 
head and have my hair some out perfect without a hair dryer! But if 
that were the case, why would they need prefect baths at all? And why 
would Hermione have to spend so much time and effort on getting her 
hair right for the Yule Ball? And why would Gilderoy Lockhart's dream 
be to market his own set of haircare products? Either the "cleansing 
spells" for humans don't exist (I wonder what would happen if you 
tried to scourgify yourself?) or they are too complex even for 
Hermione. Which brings us back to the question of why Harry never 
showers, not even at the Dursleys in the summer...

~Luckie, who almost would have liked to see Ron and Hermione caught 
snogging in the prefect's bathroom... and wonders why the prefect's 
bath wasn't mentioned in OotP.