I think it was left a bit mysterious intentionally.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2007 7:21:16 am PDT #1831 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
shrift - Jul 26, 2007 7:23:43 am PDT #1832 of 3301
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I kinda like the idea of her being the charms professor.
Have any of the Hogwarts professors been married or had children? I'm trying to come up one, but all the ones I can think of or find online have been single. I don't know if that's due to Harry's limited POV or what.
Aims - Jul 26, 2007 7:26:25 am PDT #1833 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
gasp* Seriously? They're for sale?
Not all together, per se. I'd have to probably buy one or two at a time.
I found a set of the first five on eBay today. Selling for the bargain price of $500+.
Like I said, saving the pennies.
Dana - Jul 26, 2007 7:29:59 am PDT #1834 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have Brit copies of 2, 3, and 4. I suppose I should check what editions they are.
I bought them all at once in 2000, when I was in England -- I think I was in Stratford, specifically. Then I lugged them all around England and Wales for another week.
Emily - Jul 26, 2007 8:11:59 am PDT #1835 of 3301
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hagrid got married. Not that he's generally very typical in any way.
JZ - Jul 26, 2007 8:26:02 am PDT #1836 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Have any of the Hogwarts professors been married or had children? I'm trying to come up one, but all the ones I can think of or find online have been single. I don't know if that's due to Harry's limited POV or what.
I have no idea what Rowling's conscious intent was, but, looking back at my own high school teachers, I'd be perfectly okay with chalking it up to Harry's POV. I can think of any number of teachers who were obviously espoused and kid-having but for whom it never, ever registered in my selfish little teenage brain. Except for the husband/wife theater/dance teaching tag team, whose marriage was a huge part of who they were to us, neither I nor most of my classmates had much interest in who any of them were during the hours they weren't at the front of the class.
Pix - Jul 26, 2007 8:28:51 am PDT #1837 of 3301
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I agree with JZ. I still get students looking vaguely stunned and uncomfortable when they run into me at the grocery store.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 8:30:20 am PDT #1838 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You mean you don't live in the school?
megan walker - Jul 26, 2007 8:31:02 am PDT #1839 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have no idea what Rowling's conscious intent was, but, looking back at my own high school teachers, I'd be perfectly okay with chalking it up to Harry's POV. I can think of any number of teachers who were obviously espoused and kid-having but for whom it never, ever registered in my selfish little teenage brain.
These things often don't register. My parents taught at my (fairly small) boarding school and there were people who didn't realize I was their daughter (and if you know my last name IRL you know how craxy that really is).
ETA: And we did live at school!
shrift - Jul 26, 2007 8:36:24 am PDT #1840 of 3301
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have no idea what Rowling's conscious intent was, but, looking back at my own high school teachers, I'd be perfectly okay with chalking it up to Harry's POV.
It makes sense to me that Harry wouldn't think about it, especially as Miss/Ms./Mrs. wouldn't come up because they address all their teachers as Professor. Harry had plenty to occupy his teenage years beyond the typical teen self-centered world view, so I'm fine with him not thinking about what his instructors are getting up to in the night above the dingle starry.
Of course, I'm also totally fine with Hogwarts professors being the antidote to heteronormativity.