Who are the Professors' spouses...

[Jotomicron]

It would have been so strange not to have mentioned everyone in great hall by now... and about the children... would they study at hogwarts?

[Athena Appleton]

i think that the only way it would remotely make sense for the teachers to be married is to each other... and then that opens up a whole new can of worms...

[Jotomicron]

i think that the only way it would remotely make sense for the teachers to be married is to each other... and then that opens up a whole new can of worms...

Hmm...!

[Meg Boyd]

Hahahaha....that is NEATO! How about McGonagall and Flitwick??? How about that, eh???

[Athena Appleton]

hey... they went to the Three Broomsticks together...

[Aberforth]

Well, we are probably supposed to question this (at least about what teachers do outside of school and on holidays) since Harry does. He wonders where Dumbledore is on summer vacation, imagining him at a beach somewhere, and finds it odd that McGonagall turns up at 12 Grimmauld Place in a muggle dress and coat... hmmmmm... very interesting... very interesting indeed...

The muggle dress is an interesting point. McGonagall seems very at ease with muggle dress, whereas many wizards don't have a clue.

I have a theory on this and other have touched on it. Hermione and McG being related - but not by blood, by marriage, therefore Hermione is still a m*dblood (sorry) but ti would explain why Hermione and McG seem very close. McG seems to know what Hermione says to HP and RW (OotP - when HP is sent to McG and they talk about Toadwoman's speech).

[Nobby]

how bout sprout and flitwick? they'd have tiny kids!

[Jotomicron]

The muggle dress is an interesting point. McGonagall seems very at ease with muggle dress, whereas many wizards don't have a clue.

I have a theory on this and other have touched on it. Hermione and McG being related - but not by blood, by marriage, therefore Hermione is still a m*dblood (sorry) but ti would explain why Hermione and McG seem very close. McG seems to know what Hermione says to HP and RW (OotP - when HP is sent to McG and they talk about Toadwoman's speech).

Hey! I do like this theory very much!
Both of them seem very connected, but I always supposed McGonagall would be a pureblood (maybe not) and that would explain why McGonagall seems so connected with Hermione

[Aberforth]

If you can remember which book it was (it amy have been PoA, but it decribes christmas dinner at the school. The few remaining students eat on the same table as the staff. There aren't any strangers on the table.

I would want to spend christmas day with my wife, so assuming this is the case for the staff, the staff must be married to each other.

However, the ages vary so much amongst the staff - DD is 150 years old, McG is about 70, Snape is as old as Sirius, Flitwick has got to be pretty old (I just found out from HP lexicon the Flitwicks first name is Filius - I never knew that!), Madam Pomfrey is healer when Snape was at school. If there are staff marriages, the age differences are going to freak me out.

I've always thought that there could be something between Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey. He always refers to her by her first name, Poppy.

[Aberforth]

Both of them seem very connected, but I always supposed McGonagall would be a pureblood (maybe not) and that would explain why McGonagall seems so connected with Hermione

McGonagall could still be pure-blood, just married to a muggle. But if her tartan is related to her clan, does that mean she comes from a muggle background?

Her position as a member of staff has never been an issue though in terms of her blood quality - Hagrid, Lupin have been treated badly because they are not pure wizard.

[Nobby]

i agree with aberforth

I would want to spend christmas day with my wife, so assuming this is the case for the staff, the staff must be married to each other.

the staff could be married to each other- if indeed they are married at all

[Athena Appleton]

I've always thought that there could be something between Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey. He always refers to her by her first name, Poppy.

Yeah, but he refers to everyone by their first name... Minerva, Argus, Poppy, I forgot what Mad-Eye's real name was, but that's what he called him.... It's an interesting theory, but I don't think his calling her by her first name is enough to make it stick...

Ages of teachers: Dumbledore is 150, Hagrid is about 65 (he was in 3rd year, or about 13, 50 years ago as of CoS), I think I remember hearing that McGonagall was a teacher when the Chamber of Secrets was opened, so, yeah, she's 70, AT LEAST... Snape, I would imagine, is probably in his early 40's (I'm guessing here, since we don't know how old James and Lily were when Harry was born, it's kinda hard to tell)... Madam Pomfrey and Flitwick were both teachers when the Marauders were in school... not many young teachers, huh? lol

The more I think about this, the more I doubt the teachers at Hogwarts are married. I think it's such a demanding job that there's no room for spouses... but if they were married, I think it's almost guaranteed that they're married to fellow Hogwarts teachers... but I dont think this would be true, cuz... I don't know, it just seems like it would be something J.K. Rowling pulled out of thin air...

[Meg Boyd]

i don't know

I am such a born romantic; a dreamer

so it is hard for me to see a hogwarts teacher as being forever-single...to me it might just be rather lonely you know...I am one of those kids who just can't wait to meet the right person because a life alone seems so tedious and not worth living...I mean being a spinster school teacher with no bestfriend as your husband (or wife) and no family to call your own just seems so gloomy. Of course this is just my opinion as an optimistic, romantic, dreamer of a youth...

it is so sad

[Athena Appleton]

Girl, welcome to the 21st century!

It's not as if the Hogwarts teachers probably had to take an oath to stay single... it's just, well, if your career is something that you have before marriage, and your career is as time and energy consuming as being a Hogwarts teacher is, they probably don't think too much about it. Besides, McGonagall doesn't seem the type to pine away for the husband she never had...

I see what you're saying, but I just don't think it's feasable (sp?) that the Hogwarts teachers are married... Don't see any evidence of it.

[Aberforth]

[he refers to everyone by their first name... Minerva, Argus, Poppy, I forgot what Mad-Eye's real name was, but that's what he called him.... It's an interesting theory, but I don't think his calling her by her first name is enough to make it stick...

You're quite right of course. I forgot (Moody is Alastor btw).

Thinking about it, fame and ability can be isolating (just look at Harry), so perhaps DD would find that difficult when attempting to form a relationship when he was a little younger.

I have a theory about DD anyway, in PS it says there is only 1 philosophers stone in existence, belonging to Nicholas Flamel. What if DD has one too? It would explain his extreme old age - 150 is too old to be alive naturally. It could be that his immense magical power is helping him to stay alive, but I don't know. Maybe this extra Philosophers Stone will help someone return to existence or stave off death (SB/HP)