[HPforGrownups] Re: teachers' personal lives

[Shelley Gardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 190284


> So, I think there is a variety of staff accommodations. Some are there only as needed. Others live their full time, still other only during the school year.
>
> If we can expect kids to be away from family for roughly 10 months, why is it so strange for certain members of the staff to do the same?
>
> Steve/bboyminn

Here's the adult means of transportation we see:
Floo Powder
Apparition
Brooms (since flying carpets were outlawed)

I can see certain teachers/staff having permanent accomodations at the 
castle, Trelawney, and Hagrid, but certainly there is no reason at all 
why the other staff isn't free to come and go as they please or as 
needed. A Head of House might have the requirement of having a permanent 
residence at the castle, but I can see a married teacher being free to 
go home to their families every night except those nights that they were 
on duty. Teachers could be summoned to return to the castle in a matter 
of a seconds with the Patronus, and with near instant transportation in 
a fireplace, would the students even know that they weren't in the castle?

Shelley

Shelley