Hogwarts teachers' love life WAS: Canon citation requested

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 178513

> Magpie:
> But you do know about Tonks/Lupin and Hagrid/Maxime. It's not all 
> teachers we don't know about--or perhaps it's better to say it's 
just 
> obviously that it's not a rule that we *can't* know about them. 
When 
> Hagrid was courting Maxime, when Lupin (first introduced as a 
teacher 
> and also in the Order, like both Dumbledore and Hagrid) gets 
involved 
> with Tonks we eventually hear about it and nobody thinks it's odd.


Alla:

But that's my point about Lupin we only hear about his involvement 
with Tonks when he is **no longer** teacher, when he becomes fellow 
order member and to some extent comrad IMO.

We have not heard anything about his love life when he was teaching.


Having said that I certainly agree with Hagrid being exception from 
the rule, since it is cold hard canon fact. Therefore while I find 
Hagrid to be the **only** exception from that rule ( that we get to 
hear about teachers' love life), I do agree that if there is one 
exception, it is not really a valid rule in book universe - e.g if 
we can know about Hagrid's love life, why not Dumbledore's.


> Magpie:
> But so is Dumbledore dead and no longer a teacher. (Technically 
he's 
> never been a teacher, just a headmaster.) And Hagrid was a teacher 
> when JKR showed him with Madam Maxime--and she was a headmistress. 
> It's not expected that if we know a teacher we'll see them in any 
> sort of romantic situation, but it's not unheard of. So 
Dumbledore's 
> once being a teacher isn't any reason he can't have any romantic 
> relationships associated with him.

Alla:

I would say that Headmaster's of old english school would go to even 
greater length to hide his love life from his students then just a 
teacher. IMO of course and he was a teacher way back, no?

But again, I concede that because of Hagrid my rule is not working.


> Magpie:
<SNIP>
>This includes Lupin/Tonks and Hagrid/Maxime. 
> Dumbledore's past relationship seems to be no less relevent than 
> theirs. It adds something to actions of his that are mentioned in 
the 
> books and also sets up more of a neat contrast with Snape. I think 
> it's a shame we miss that last bit.


Alla:

I would **love** it to be in the books, it is still working for me 
that Dumbledore would not want Harry to know about it character wise.

I do hope she puts it in encyclopedia though.