[HPforGrownups] Re: The unattached, the Dursleys, the role of women

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188144

potioncat wrote:
> McGonagall is listed as being single by several posters, but I don't think we know that. Harry never sees her with anyone he knows to be a partner, but that's because he doesn't know. Slughorn is unattached now, but we don't know if that was always the case.
>   

Bart:
    I was thinking the same thing. There was a prominent professor at 
Columbia University in New York, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, who was married to 
Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, another prominent physicist who spent most of his 
time in high energy labs in Switzerland and Taiwan. Somehow, they 
managed to get together enough to have a son. It could very well be that 
McGonagall was married to a man who did not live with her during the 
school year.

    I recall a few years back, there was some attempt to figure out the 
amount of classroom time the professors at Hogwarts spent; one problem 
was figuring out the number of students at Hogwarts (I seeem to recall 
that it was about 250). With all these uncoupled wizards and witches, 
one does not need to wonder why the wizard population is so small.

    Bart