Marriage at Hogwarts and in the WW

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 137284

Prep0strus wrote:
> >(snipped)...in general, marriage (and even rlationships) seem
> > to remain hidden in JKR's world. This is especially visible at
> > Hogwarts - I don't see why spouses couldn't live/work at the 
> > school....

Leah: 
> In a BBC online chat in 2001, JKR was asked whether any of the 
> Hogwarts professors 'had been married'.  She replied that a number 
> had, but that the information 'was sort of restricted' for reasons 
> we would find out. <snip> There have been suggestions on this 
> board that there was a relationship/marriage between DD and Madam 
> Pomfrey.... I suppose another possibility is that Madam Pince is 
> not Snape's mother, but his wife....


SSSusan:
There have also been speculations about a marriage/romantic 
relationship between McGonagall and Dumbledore.  Personally, I think 
the ending of HBP probably puts that one to rest.  Surely if MM had 
been DD's partner, the news would have come out and/or she would have 
reacted more strongly to his death?

There has also been speculation at HPfGU that McGonagall was once 
married to Tom Riddle, perhaps even having a child with him.  I 
believe this suggestion was raised in an attempt to explain why DD 
never did broadcast to the world "Lord Voldemort is really this half-
blood kid I once taught, Tom Riddle!"  I mean, really, why NOT 
broadcast that fact?  Surely it would have lowered his esteem for 
many DEs.  One possible explanation was that doing so would harm 
someone, that DD wanted to protect someone or someone's reputation.  
If MM had been married to Tom, perhaps some people remembered that... 
but never knew he turned into Voldemort.

A pretty Out There notion, I"ll grant :-) but I present it just as 
something else which has been speculated about here concerning 
Hogwarts teachers' marital status.  I think HBP seemingly eliminates 
this MM/Riddle possibility, too, since DD seems to have struggled to 
find out where Tom went and what he did for many years.  Surely if 
he'd had a relationship with MM, DD would have accessed *her* 
memories.

But the question of why DD didn't tell the whole WW that TR = LV is 
still intriguing, no?

As well as the question, WHICH of the professors' married lives could 
matter so much that it's being kept a secret still?

Siriusly Snapey Susan