Staff's Activities (was:Re: Snape's Speech patterns)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 142444

> >>Carol:
> > The man Snape is surprisingly athletic, running across the        
> > Hogwarts grounds and duelling Harry effortlessly and without      
> > becoming winded. 

> >>Sydney:
> Yay, a chance to introduce my  Snape theory... well, not a THEORY,
> more of a notion:  Jogging!Snape.
> <snip of evidence>
> So I reckon Snape's a jogger.  Well, more of a runner.  He seems     
> just the sort of type-A personality to get up at 5:30 and go for a   
> 5k run around the lake.
> Visual aide:  http://img379.imageshack.us/my.php?
image=joggingsnape3cs.jpg

Betsy Hp:
Hee!  I love it! And I agree about the runner versus jogger thing.  
I'm betting Snape would take the opportunity to run from his demons 
and possibly get in a bit of self-punishment too.  (Maybe a bit of 
cross-country running with snapping tree branches and treacherous 
footing?)

And can I put in a notion about Swimming!Dumbledore?  I can totally 
see Dumbledore starting his day with a refreshing swim about the lake, 
and then home for a nice steaming bowl of porridge.  Dumbledore does 
speak the mermaid's language, after all.  And there's all that 
gillyweed on hand.  (Didn't Harry find the gillyweed somehow protected 
him from the cold?)

While on the subject, I bet McGonagall would be all over a nice 
vigorous morning constitutional, striding across the fields and 
grounds surrounding Hogwarts, all tweed and tartan and a nice knobby 
walking stick.

Trelawney would go for a mid-day yoga session, of course.  Professor 
Stout... would make yearly promises to walk the Hogwarts grounds, and 
then get distracted by the greenhouses.  Flitwick... power-walking, 
maybe?  Or perhaps he's the resident jogger.  (And he thought he and 
young Snape would bond over their chosen activity but changed his mind 
after one run where Snape's pace nearly killed him, while Snape was 
holding himself back...)

Which of course leaves a question:  who's the resident cyclist?

Betsy Hp