Muggle clothes and dungeon dormitiories (Was: Where do teachers live?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 97704

 
> Carol again:
> My Scholastic edition of SS/PS, which has the drawings, is dated
> October 1998--long before the movies. The wizard who wears the suit
> (not counting Barty Sr. at the QWC, where he's passing as a Muggle) 
is
> probably Fudge, who wears a suit (along with a green bowler), 
probably
> because of his contacts with the British PM.


Potioncat:
I'm listening to PoA, just got to the first divination class.  
The "grim" in Harry's tea leaves is also offered as a bowler and I 
couldn't help but wonder if it didn't also refer to Fudge....Oh heck, 
I'm starting to sound like Lavender!...


 Carol:
> BTW, the dungeon is an odd place for a classroom (and office?) and 
an
> odder place for the Slytherin dormitories. Wouldn't you think that,
> with four towers in the castle, all the dorms would be in the 
towers?
> But it's only Gryffindor and (I think) Ravenclaw that do--Slytherin
> has its quarters in the dungeon and Hufflepuff is somewhere near the
> passage that leads to the kitchen. (Oh, those hungry Hufflepuffs!)


Potioncat:
I snipped your discription of the cloak billowing and it made much 
more sense!  I "see" now.

I agree the dungeons does seem odd, and I can't tell if the passage 
to the kitchen is also a part of the dungeon, or just below ground.  
Do you suppose after going down to get into the common room, there 
are stairs leading back up the towers?  Sort of like going into a 
room on the 3rd floor guarded by a 3-headed dog and ending up below 
the castle.  Or taking a secret door on the 4th floor that leads to a 
tunnel to Hogsmeade?

I've reasoned that the potions class is taught in the dungeon because 
all those simmering cauldrons would get pretty warm after a while.  I 
wonder though, if a new potions teacher could request a different 
location?  Or is this just a part of our own "dark" view of 
witches/wizards and JKR uses it to the fullest.
Potioncat