Where did Dumbledore live while working at Hogwarts?

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To me it seems like he would either live in the castle or somewhere near. I can't find any proof of either of those so any help would be appreciated.
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i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
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In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
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To me it seems like he would either live in the castle or somewhere near. I can't find any proof of either of those so any help would be appreciated.
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To me it seems like he would either live in the castle or somewhere near. I can't find any proof of either of those so any help would be appreciated.
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i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
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Aug 19 at 15:39
In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
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i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
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Aug 19 at 15:39
In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
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Aug 19 at 11:32
i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
â padfoot
Aug 19 at 15:39
i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
â padfoot
Aug 19 at 15:39
In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
â Julien Lopez
Aug 19 at 20:21
In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
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Most likely in his office or in an adjacent chamber
In Philosopher's Stone, after finding out that Hagrid had told someone how to get past Fluffy, Harry and friends are looking for Dumbledore:
âÂÂWeâÂÂve got to go to Dumbledore,â said Harry. âÂÂHagrid told that
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or Voldemort
under that cloak â it mustâÂÂve been easy, once heâÂÂd got Hagrid drunk.
I just hope Dumbledore believes us. Firenze might back us up if Bane
doesnâÂÂt stop him. WhereâÂÂs DumbledoreâÂÂs office?âÂÂ
They looked around, as if hoping to see a sign pointing them in the
right direction. They had never been told where Dumbledore lived, nor
did they know anyone who had been sent to see him.
Harry asks the other two where Dumbledore's office is, and the narrator responds by telling us that they had never been told where Dumbledore lives. This would seem to imply that Dumbledore's office and "where Dumbledore lives" are synonymous â i.e. Dumbledore lives in his office.
We find the same comparison made by the narrator in Chamber of Secrets when Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Dumbledore's office:
He knew now where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore
lived.
It seems reasonable that in general the teachers lived in their offices. They are known to be at Hogwarts at nights and they are there throughout the year, and no other staff living quarters are mentioned in the books. Indeed evidence of them living in their offices can be found. For instance, When Harry and Ron confront Professor Lockhart in his office at the end of Chamber of Secrets they find him packing up his stuff to run away:
His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood open on the floor. Robes, jade- green, lilac, midnight-blue,
had been hastily folded into one of them; books were jumbled untidily
into the other. The photographs that had covered the walls were now
crammed into boxes on the desk.
That all his things, including various sets of clothing, seem to be in his office would indicate that that is where he lives during the school year. In fact, when Harry visits that office three years later in Order of the Phoenix he reminisces about Lockhart, and Lockhart is expressly described as "living" there:
In the days when Gilderoy Lockhart had lived here it had been
plastered in beaming portraits of its owner.
It also seems apparent that Professor Slughorn sleeps in his office, as he was there apparently just woken up when Harry brought Ron there to cure his love potion:
Harry had been slightly worried that Slughorn might be at breakfast,
but he answered his office door at the first knock, wearing a green
velvet dressing gown and matching nightcap and looking rather
bleary-eyed.
âÂÂHarry,â he mumbled. âÂÂThis is very early for a call. ... I
generally sleep late on a Saturday. ...âÂÂ
Similarly it seems that Professor Moody sleeps in his office, as evidenced in Goblet of Fire when the protagonists want to ask him if he found Mr. Crouch:
âÂÂDâÂÂyou think itâÂÂs too early to go and see Professor Moody?â Hermione
said as they went down the spiral staircase.
âÂÂYes,â said Harry. âÂÂHeâÂÂd probably blast us through the door if we
wake him at the crack of dawn; heâÂÂll think weâÂÂre trying to attack him
while heâÂÂs asleep. LetâÂÂs give it till break.âÂÂ
However, we don't necessarily know where in the offices they sleep. We don't ever find any sleeping facilities in the offices we see. Moreover, in Goblet of Fire Moody breaks into Snape's office at night and it is somewhat implied that Snape sleeps elsewhere. We can presume that Snape had already retired for the night because:
He was wearing a long gray nightshirt and he looked livid.
Yet he seems to have been somewhere other than his office (my emphasis):
âÂÂOf course not,â Snape snapped. âÂÂI heard banging and wailing â âÂÂ
âÂÂYes, Professor, that was the egg â âÂÂ
â â I was coming to investigate â âÂÂ
â â Peeves threw it, Professor â âÂÂ
â â and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and
a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!âÂÂ
This could indicate that Snape's sleeping quarters were not in his office. It could be that the teachers' sleeping quarters are in other rooms off their offices, such that we wouldn't see their beds and the like in the office proper, and such that Snape would have had to pass his office to get from his sleeping room to Harry's staircase.
There is, however, one passage that could be read as implying that Dumbledore's living quarters were not in (or off of) his office. In Half-Blood Prince when Harry returns to Gryffindor Tower after he got the memory from Slughorn, he finds out that Dumbledore had just returned to the castle (my emphasis):
âÂÂFantastic,â said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor.
âÂÂReally brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if
he was here, because heâÂÂs the one who wanted me to âÂÂâ âÂÂHe is here,âÂÂ
said a voice behind Harry. âÂÂProfessor Dumbledore returned to the
school an hour ago.âÂÂ
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as
usual upon his ruff.
âÂÂI had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,â said Nick. âÂÂHe
appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a
little tired, of course.âÂÂ
âÂÂWhere is he?â said Harry, his heart leaping.
âÂÂOh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, itâÂÂs a favourite
pastime of his âÂÂâÂÂ
âÂÂNot the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!âÂÂ
âÂÂOh â in his office,â said Nick. âÂÂI believe, from what the Baron said,
that he had business to attend to before turning in âÂÂâÂÂ
It sounds like "he had business to attend to before turning in" is the explanation for why Dumbledore was going to his office so late at night. If Dumbledore's living quarters were actually in his office then of course he would be going to his office, even if he didn't have business to attend to, because that's where he lived! Moreover, the fact that Harry didn't think that the obvious place for Dumbledore to be was his office might also lead us to believe that Dumbledore had living quarters elsewhere.
However, one could perhaps argue that the Bloody Baron and Nearly Headless Nick were simply giving over factual information and were not trying to explain why Dumbledore was in his office. One could also perhaps argue that Harry was simply foolish for not thinking that Dumbledore was in his office, or that he may have thought that Dumbledore had business to attend to elsewhere before turning in.
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As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
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@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
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True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
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ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
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@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
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Dumbledore would have lived at Hogwarts during the school year.
The movie set had built and placed DumbledoreâÂÂs bedroom behind his office desk, behind his chair.

This diagram seems to show how his bedroom connects to his office, while his office still remains circular in appearance. (His bedroom looks to be on the bottom right.)

The green velvet near the top of his bedroom is visible in this picture of him in his office.

This seems consistent with the information in the books, as well. The teachers all seem to live in Hogwarts during the school year. Dumbledore himself is seen in his sleeping wear when he helps move Colin Creevey after heâÂÂs Petrified, so heâÂÂd been prepared for bed when he realized there was an emergency and he was needed to help.
âÂÂNext moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly dressing gown and a nightcap. He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
The emergency wasnâÂÂt the reason he was at Hogwarts, though. HeâÂÂd actually just been on his way downstairs for hot chocolate and found out about ColinâÂÂs being Petrified by chance, which seems to indicate he was living in Hogwarts. He was trying to get a snack in the middle of the night, which he wouldnâÂÂt be doing if heâÂÂd gone somewhere else to sleep and only returned in emergencies when heâÂÂd be needed. If he lived somewhere else, then heâÂÂd get himself late-night drinks there as well rather than returning to Hogwarts just to get himself hot chocolate.
âÂÂYes,â said Professor McGonagall. âÂÂBut I shudder to think ⦠If Albus hadnâÂÂt been on the way downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have â¦âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
This shows that DumbledoreâÂÂs living quarters would be upstairs from the kitchen, since he was going downstairs for his hot chocolate, which presumably heâÂÂd be getting from the Hogwarts kitchens. Where exactly his bedroom is, though, isnâÂÂt really clear, since Hogwarts is large and many things are above the kitchens. A possibility is that it could be in the same tower as his office.
âÂÂThe painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able to flit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in the HeadmasterâÂÂs office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was no doubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of DumbledoreâÂÂs collection of delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hat and, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
Though the staff does seem to all live in Hogwarts during the school year, thereâÂÂs not much detail given on where exactly their bedrooms are in the castle, since Harry doesnâÂÂt see where his teachers sleep. However, a JKR Pottermore writing says McGonagall lived in Hogwarts itself as well for some of the time she worked there, and further goes on to describe her quarters a bit more.
Minerva could not bear to remain alone in their cottage, but packed her things after ElphinstoneâÂÂs funeral and returned to her sparse stone-floored bedroom in Hogwarts Castle, accessible through a concealed door in the wall of her first-floor study.
- Professor McGonagall (Pottermore)
Dumbledore could have had a similar arrangement, with his living quarters somewhere inside the castle itself, perhaps hidden away somehow like McGonagallâÂÂs were. (When he was younger, Harry suspected he lived in his office, but thereâÂÂs nothing suggesting this is actually true - his office didnâÂÂt seem equipped for living in. However, his living quarters may have been accessible through it.)
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Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
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@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
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@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
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There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
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@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
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Most likely in his office or in an adjacent chamber
In Philosopher's Stone, after finding out that Hagrid had told someone how to get past Fluffy, Harry and friends are looking for Dumbledore:
âÂÂWeâÂÂve got to go to Dumbledore,â said Harry. âÂÂHagrid told that
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or Voldemort
under that cloak â it mustâÂÂve been easy, once heâÂÂd got Hagrid drunk.
I just hope Dumbledore believes us. Firenze might back us up if Bane
doesnâÂÂt stop him. WhereâÂÂs DumbledoreâÂÂs office?âÂÂ
They looked around, as if hoping to see a sign pointing them in the
right direction. They had never been told where Dumbledore lived, nor
did they know anyone who had been sent to see him.
Harry asks the other two where Dumbledore's office is, and the narrator responds by telling us that they had never been told where Dumbledore lives. This would seem to imply that Dumbledore's office and "where Dumbledore lives" are synonymous â i.e. Dumbledore lives in his office.
We find the same comparison made by the narrator in Chamber of Secrets when Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Dumbledore's office:
He knew now where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore
lived.
It seems reasonable that in general the teachers lived in their offices. They are known to be at Hogwarts at nights and they are there throughout the year, and no other staff living quarters are mentioned in the books. Indeed evidence of them living in their offices can be found. For instance, When Harry and Ron confront Professor Lockhart in his office at the end of Chamber of Secrets they find him packing up his stuff to run away:
His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood open on the floor. Robes, jade- green, lilac, midnight-blue,
had been hastily folded into one of them; books were jumbled untidily
into the other. The photographs that had covered the walls were now
crammed into boxes on the desk.
That all his things, including various sets of clothing, seem to be in his office would indicate that that is where he lives during the school year. In fact, when Harry visits that office three years later in Order of the Phoenix he reminisces about Lockhart, and Lockhart is expressly described as "living" there:
In the days when Gilderoy Lockhart had lived here it had been
plastered in beaming portraits of its owner.
It also seems apparent that Professor Slughorn sleeps in his office, as he was there apparently just woken up when Harry brought Ron there to cure his love potion:
Harry had been slightly worried that Slughorn might be at breakfast,
but he answered his office door at the first knock, wearing a green
velvet dressing gown and matching nightcap and looking rather
bleary-eyed.
âÂÂHarry,â he mumbled. âÂÂThis is very early for a call. ... I
generally sleep late on a Saturday. ...âÂÂ
Similarly it seems that Professor Moody sleeps in his office, as evidenced in Goblet of Fire when the protagonists want to ask him if he found Mr. Crouch:
âÂÂDâÂÂyou think itâÂÂs too early to go and see Professor Moody?â Hermione
said as they went down the spiral staircase.
âÂÂYes,â said Harry. âÂÂHeâÂÂd probably blast us through the door if we
wake him at the crack of dawn; heâÂÂll think weâÂÂre trying to attack him
while heâÂÂs asleep. LetâÂÂs give it till break.âÂÂ
However, we don't necessarily know where in the offices they sleep. We don't ever find any sleeping facilities in the offices we see. Moreover, in Goblet of Fire Moody breaks into Snape's office at night and it is somewhat implied that Snape sleeps elsewhere. We can presume that Snape had already retired for the night because:
He was wearing a long gray nightshirt and he looked livid.
Yet he seems to have been somewhere other than his office (my emphasis):
âÂÂOf course not,â Snape snapped. âÂÂI heard banging and wailing â âÂÂ
âÂÂYes, Professor, that was the egg â âÂÂ
â â I was coming to investigate â âÂÂ
â â Peeves threw it, Professor â âÂÂ
â â and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and
a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!âÂÂ
This could indicate that Snape's sleeping quarters were not in his office. It could be that the teachers' sleeping quarters are in other rooms off their offices, such that we wouldn't see their beds and the like in the office proper, and such that Snape would have had to pass his office to get from his sleeping room to Harry's staircase.
There is, however, one passage that could be read as implying that Dumbledore's living quarters were not in (or off of) his office. In Half-Blood Prince when Harry returns to Gryffindor Tower after he got the memory from Slughorn, he finds out that Dumbledore had just returned to the castle (my emphasis):
âÂÂFantastic,â said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor.
âÂÂReally brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if
he was here, because heâÂÂs the one who wanted me to âÂÂâ âÂÂHe is here,âÂÂ
said a voice behind Harry. âÂÂProfessor Dumbledore returned to the
school an hour ago.âÂÂ
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as
usual upon his ruff.
âÂÂI had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,â said Nick. âÂÂHe
appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a
little tired, of course.âÂÂ
âÂÂWhere is he?â said Harry, his heart leaping.
âÂÂOh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, itâÂÂs a favourite
pastime of his âÂÂâÂÂ
âÂÂNot the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!âÂÂ
âÂÂOh â in his office,â said Nick. âÂÂI believe, from what the Baron said,
that he had business to attend to before turning in âÂÂâÂÂ
It sounds like "he had business to attend to before turning in" is the explanation for why Dumbledore was going to his office so late at night. If Dumbledore's living quarters were actually in his office then of course he would be going to his office, even if he didn't have business to attend to, because that's where he lived! Moreover, the fact that Harry didn't think that the obvious place for Dumbledore to be was his office might also lead us to believe that Dumbledore had living quarters elsewhere.
However, one could perhaps argue that the Bloody Baron and Nearly Headless Nick were simply giving over factual information and were not trying to explain why Dumbledore was in his office. One could also perhaps argue that Harry was simply foolish for not thinking that Dumbledore was in his office, or that he may have thought that Dumbledore had business to attend to elsewhere before turning in.
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As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
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@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
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True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
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ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
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@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
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Most likely in his office or in an adjacent chamber
In Philosopher's Stone, after finding out that Hagrid had told someone how to get past Fluffy, Harry and friends are looking for Dumbledore:
âÂÂWeâÂÂve got to go to Dumbledore,â said Harry. âÂÂHagrid told that
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or Voldemort
under that cloak â it mustâÂÂve been easy, once heâÂÂd got Hagrid drunk.
I just hope Dumbledore believes us. Firenze might back us up if Bane
doesnâÂÂt stop him. WhereâÂÂs DumbledoreâÂÂs office?âÂÂ
They looked around, as if hoping to see a sign pointing them in the
right direction. They had never been told where Dumbledore lived, nor
did they know anyone who had been sent to see him.
Harry asks the other two where Dumbledore's office is, and the narrator responds by telling us that they had never been told where Dumbledore lives. This would seem to imply that Dumbledore's office and "where Dumbledore lives" are synonymous â i.e. Dumbledore lives in his office.
We find the same comparison made by the narrator in Chamber of Secrets when Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Dumbledore's office:
He knew now where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore
lived.
It seems reasonable that in general the teachers lived in their offices. They are known to be at Hogwarts at nights and they are there throughout the year, and no other staff living quarters are mentioned in the books. Indeed evidence of them living in their offices can be found. For instance, When Harry and Ron confront Professor Lockhart in his office at the end of Chamber of Secrets they find him packing up his stuff to run away:
His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood open on the floor. Robes, jade- green, lilac, midnight-blue,
had been hastily folded into one of them; books were jumbled untidily
into the other. The photographs that had covered the walls were now
crammed into boxes on the desk.
That all his things, including various sets of clothing, seem to be in his office would indicate that that is where he lives during the school year. In fact, when Harry visits that office three years later in Order of the Phoenix he reminisces about Lockhart, and Lockhart is expressly described as "living" there:
In the days when Gilderoy Lockhart had lived here it had been
plastered in beaming portraits of its owner.
It also seems apparent that Professor Slughorn sleeps in his office, as he was there apparently just woken up when Harry brought Ron there to cure his love potion:
Harry had been slightly worried that Slughorn might be at breakfast,
but he answered his office door at the first knock, wearing a green
velvet dressing gown and matching nightcap and looking rather
bleary-eyed.
âÂÂHarry,â he mumbled. âÂÂThis is very early for a call. ... I
generally sleep late on a Saturday. ...âÂÂ
Similarly it seems that Professor Moody sleeps in his office, as evidenced in Goblet of Fire when the protagonists want to ask him if he found Mr. Crouch:
âÂÂDâÂÂyou think itâÂÂs too early to go and see Professor Moody?â Hermione
said as they went down the spiral staircase.
âÂÂYes,â said Harry. âÂÂHeâÂÂd probably blast us through the door if we
wake him at the crack of dawn; heâÂÂll think weâÂÂre trying to attack him
while heâÂÂs asleep. LetâÂÂs give it till break.âÂÂ
However, we don't necessarily know where in the offices they sleep. We don't ever find any sleeping facilities in the offices we see. Moreover, in Goblet of Fire Moody breaks into Snape's office at night and it is somewhat implied that Snape sleeps elsewhere. We can presume that Snape had already retired for the night because:
He was wearing a long gray nightshirt and he looked livid.
Yet he seems to have been somewhere other than his office (my emphasis):
âÂÂOf course not,â Snape snapped. âÂÂI heard banging and wailing â âÂÂ
âÂÂYes, Professor, that was the egg â âÂÂ
â â I was coming to investigate â âÂÂ
â â Peeves threw it, Professor â âÂÂ
â â and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and
a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!âÂÂ
This could indicate that Snape's sleeping quarters were not in his office. It could be that the teachers' sleeping quarters are in other rooms off their offices, such that we wouldn't see their beds and the like in the office proper, and such that Snape would have had to pass his office to get from his sleeping room to Harry's staircase.
There is, however, one passage that could be read as implying that Dumbledore's living quarters were not in (or off of) his office. In Half-Blood Prince when Harry returns to Gryffindor Tower after he got the memory from Slughorn, he finds out that Dumbledore had just returned to the castle (my emphasis):
âÂÂFantastic,â said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor.
âÂÂReally brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if
he was here, because heâÂÂs the one who wanted me to âÂÂâ âÂÂHe is here,âÂÂ
said a voice behind Harry. âÂÂProfessor Dumbledore returned to the
school an hour ago.âÂÂ
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as
usual upon his ruff.
âÂÂI had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,â said Nick. âÂÂHe
appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a
little tired, of course.âÂÂ
âÂÂWhere is he?â said Harry, his heart leaping.
âÂÂOh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, itâÂÂs a favourite
pastime of his âÂÂâÂÂ
âÂÂNot the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!âÂÂ
âÂÂOh â in his office,â said Nick. âÂÂI believe, from what the Baron said,
that he had business to attend to before turning in âÂÂâÂÂ
It sounds like "he had business to attend to before turning in" is the explanation for why Dumbledore was going to his office so late at night. If Dumbledore's living quarters were actually in his office then of course he would be going to his office, even if he didn't have business to attend to, because that's where he lived! Moreover, the fact that Harry didn't think that the obvious place for Dumbledore to be was his office might also lead us to believe that Dumbledore had living quarters elsewhere.
However, one could perhaps argue that the Bloody Baron and Nearly Headless Nick were simply giving over factual information and were not trying to explain why Dumbledore was in his office. One could also perhaps argue that Harry was simply foolish for not thinking that Dumbledore was in his office, or that he may have thought that Dumbledore had business to attend to elsewhere before turning in.
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As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
6
@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
29
True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
6
ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
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@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
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Aug 19 at 15:02
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Most likely in his office or in an adjacent chamber
In Philosopher's Stone, after finding out that Hagrid had told someone how to get past Fluffy, Harry and friends are looking for Dumbledore:
âÂÂWeâÂÂve got to go to Dumbledore,â said Harry. âÂÂHagrid told that
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or Voldemort
under that cloak â it mustâÂÂve been easy, once heâÂÂd got Hagrid drunk.
I just hope Dumbledore believes us. Firenze might back us up if Bane
doesnâÂÂt stop him. WhereâÂÂs DumbledoreâÂÂs office?âÂÂ
They looked around, as if hoping to see a sign pointing them in the
right direction. They had never been told where Dumbledore lived, nor
did they know anyone who had been sent to see him.
Harry asks the other two where Dumbledore's office is, and the narrator responds by telling us that they had never been told where Dumbledore lives. This would seem to imply that Dumbledore's office and "where Dumbledore lives" are synonymous â i.e. Dumbledore lives in his office.
We find the same comparison made by the narrator in Chamber of Secrets when Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Dumbledore's office:
He knew now where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore
lived.
It seems reasonable that in general the teachers lived in their offices. They are known to be at Hogwarts at nights and they are there throughout the year, and no other staff living quarters are mentioned in the books. Indeed evidence of them living in their offices can be found. For instance, When Harry and Ron confront Professor Lockhart in his office at the end of Chamber of Secrets they find him packing up his stuff to run away:
His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood open on the floor. Robes, jade- green, lilac, midnight-blue,
had been hastily folded into one of them; books were jumbled untidily
into the other. The photographs that had covered the walls were now
crammed into boxes on the desk.
That all his things, including various sets of clothing, seem to be in his office would indicate that that is where he lives during the school year. In fact, when Harry visits that office three years later in Order of the Phoenix he reminisces about Lockhart, and Lockhart is expressly described as "living" there:
In the days when Gilderoy Lockhart had lived here it had been
plastered in beaming portraits of its owner.
It also seems apparent that Professor Slughorn sleeps in his office, as he was there apparently just woken up when Harry brought Ron there to cure his love potion:
Harry had been slightly worried that Slughorn might be at breakfast,
but he answered his office door at the first knock, wearing a green
velvet dressing gown and matching nightcap and looking rather
bleary-eyed.
âÂÂHarry,â he mumbled. âÂÂThis is very early for a call. ... I
generally sleep late on a Saturday. ...âÂÂ
Similarly it seems that Professor Moody sleeps in his office, as evidenced in Goblet of Fire when the protagonists want to ask him if he found Mr. Crouch:
âÂÂDâÂÂyou think itâÂÂs too early to go and see Professor Moody?â Hermione
said as they went down the spiral staircase.
âÂÂYes,â said Harry. âÂÂHeâÂÂd probably blast us through the door if we
wake him at the crack of dawn; heâÂÂll think weâÂÂre trying to attack him
while heâÂÂs asleep. LetâÂÂs give it till break.âÂÂ
However, we don't necessarily know where in the offices they sleep. We don't ever find any sleeping facilities in the offices we see. Moreover, in Goblet of Fire Moody breaks into Snape's office at night and it is somewhat implied that Snape sleeps elsewhere. We can presume that Snape had already retired for the night because:
He was wearing a long gray nightshirt and he looked livid.
Yet he seems to have been somewhere other than his office (my emphasis):
âÂÂOf course not,â Snape snapped. âÂÂI heard banging and wailing â âÂÂ
âÂÂYes, Professor, that was the egg â âÂÂ
â â I was coming to investigate â âÂÂ
â â Peeves threw it, Professor â âÂÂ
â â and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and
a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!âÂÂ
This could indicate that Snape's sleeping quarters were not in his office. It could be that the teachers' sleeping quarters are in other rooms off their offices, such that we wouldn't see their beds and the like in the office proper, and such that Snape would have had to pass his office to get from his sleeping room to Harry's staircase.
There is, however, one passage that could be read as implying that Dumbledore's living quarters were not in (or off of) his office. In Half-Blood Prince when Harry returns to Gryffindor Tower after he got the memory from Slughorn, he finds out that Dumbledore had just returned to the castle (my emphasis):
âÂÂFantastic,â said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor.
âÂÂReally brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if
he was here, because heâÂÂs the one who wanted me to âÂÂâ âÂÂHe is here,âÂÂ
said a voice behind Harry. âÂÂProfessor Dumbledore returned to the
school an hour ago.âÂÂ
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as
usual upon his ruff.
âÂÂI had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,â said Nick. âÂÂHe
appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a
little tired, of course.âÂÂ
âÂÂWhere is he?â said Harry, his heart leaping.
âÂÂOh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, itâÂÂs a favourite
pastime of his âÂÂâÂÂ
âÂÂNot the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!âÂÂ
âÂÂOh â in his office,â said Nick. âÂÂI believe, from what the Baron said,
that he had business to attend to before turning in âÂÂâÂÂ
It sounds like "he had business to attend to before turning in" is the explanation for why Dumbledore was going to his office so late at night. If Dumbledore's living quarters were actually in his office then of course he would be going to his office, even if he didn't have business to attend to, because that's where he lived! Moreover, the fact that Harry didn't think that the obvious place for Dumbledore to be was his office might also lead us to believe that Dumbledore had living quarters elsewhere.
However, one could perhaps argue that the Bloody Baron and Nearly Headless Nick were simply giving over factual information and were not trying to explain why Dumbledore was in his office. One could also perhaps argue that Harry was simply foolish for not thinking that Dumbledore was in his office, or that he may have thought that Dumbledore had business to attend to elsewhere before turning in.
Most likely in his office or in an adjacent chamber
In Philosopher's Stone, after finding out that Hagrid had told someone how to get past Fluffy, Harry and friends are looking for Dumbledore:
âÂÂWeâÂÂve got to go to Dumbledore,â said Harry. âÂÂHagrid told that
stranger how to get past Fluffy, and it was either Snape or Voldemort
under that cloak â it mustâÂÂve been easy, once heâÂÂd got Hagrid drunk.
I just hope Dumbledore believes us. Firenze might back us up if Bane
doesnâÂÂt stop him. WhereâÂÂs DumbledoreâÂÂs office?âÂÂ
They looked around, as if hoping to see a sign pointing them in the
right direction. They had never been told where Dumbledore lived, nor
did they know anyone who had been sent to see him.
Harry asks the other two where Dumbledore's office is, and the narrator responds by telling us that they had never been told where Dumbledore lives. This would seem to imply that Dumbledore's office and "where Dumbledore lives" are synonymous â i.e. Dumbledore lives in his office.
We find the same comparison made by the narrator in Chamber of Secrets when Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Dumbledore's office:
He knew now where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore
lived.
It seems reasonable that in general the teachers lived in their offices. They are known to be at Hogwarts at nights and they are there throughout the year, and no other staff living quarters are mentioned in the books. Indeed evidence of them living in their offices can be found. For instance, When Harry and Ron confront Professor Lockhart in his office at the end of Chamber of Secrets they find him packing up his stuff to run away:
His office had been almost completely stripped. Two large trunks
stood open on the floor. Robes, jade- green, lilac, midnight-blue,
had been hastily folded into one of them; books were jumbled untidily
into the other. The photographs that had covered the walls were now
crammed into boxes on the desk.
That all his things, including various sets of clothing, seem to be in his office would indicate that that is where he lives during the school year. In fact, when Harry visits that office three years later in Order of the Phoenix he reminisces about Lockhart, and Lockhart is expressly described as "living" there:
In the days when Gilderoy Lockhart had lived here it had been
plastered in beaming portraits of its owner.
It also seems apparent that Professor Slughorn sleeps in his office, as he was there apparently just woken up when Harry brought Ron there to cure his love potion:
Harry had been slightly worried that Slughorn might be at breakfast,
but he answered his office door at the first knock, wearing a green
velvet dressing gown and matching nightcap and looking rather
bleary-eyed.
âÂÂHarry,â he mumbled. âÂÂThis is very early for a call. ... I
generally sleep late on a Saturday. ...âÂÂ
Similarly it seems that Professor Moody sleeps in his office, as evidenced in Goblet of Fire when the protagonists want to ask him if he found Mr. Crouch:
âÂÂDâÂÂyou think itâÂÂs too early to go and see Professor Moody?â Hermione
said as they went down the spiral staircase.
âÂÂYes,â said Harry. âÂÂHeâÂÂd probably blast us through the door if we
wake him at the crack of dawn; heâÂÂll think weâÂÂre trying to attack him
while heâÂÂs asleep. LetâÂÂs give it till break.âÂÂ
However, we don't necessarily know where in the offices they sleep. We don't ever find any sleeping facilities in the offices we see. Moreover, in Goblet of Fire Moody breaks into Snape's office at night and it is somewhat implied that Snape sleeps elsewhere. We can presume that Snape had already retired for the night because:
He was wearing a long gray nightshirt and he looked livid.
Yet he seems to have been somewhere other than his office (my emphasis):
âÂÂOf course not,â Snape snapped. âÂÂI heard banging and wailing â âÂÂ
âÂÂYes, Professor, that was the egg â âÂÂ
â â I was coming to investigate â âÂÂ
â â Peeves threw it, Professor â âÂÂ
â â and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and
a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!âÂÂ
This could indicate that Snape's sleeping quarters were not in his office. It could be that the teachers' sleeping quarters are in other rooms off their offices, such that we wouldn't see their beds and the like in the office proper, and such that Snape would have had to pass his office to get from his sleeping room to Harry's staircase.
There is, however, one passage that could be read as implying that Dumbledore's living quarters were not in (or off of) his office. In Half-Blood Prince when Harry returns to Gryffindor Tower after he got the memory from Slughorn, he finds out that Dumbledore had just returned to the castle (my emphasis):
âÂÂFantastic,â said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor.
âÂÂReally brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if
he was here, because heâÂÂs the one who wanted me to âÂÂâ âÂÂHe is here,âÂÂ
said a voice behind Harry. âÂÂProfessor Dumbledore returned to the
school an hour ago.âÂÂ
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as
usual upon his ruff.
âÂÂI had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,â said Nick. âÂÂHe
appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a
little tired, of course.âÂÂ
âÂÂWhere is he?â said Harry, his heart leaping.
âÂÂOh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, itâÂÂs a favourite
pastime of his âÂÂâÂÂ
âÂÂNot the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!âÂÂ
âÂÂOh â in his office,â said Nick. âÂÂI believe, from what the Baron said,
that he had business to attend to before turning in âÂÂâÂÂ
It sounds like "he had business to attend to before turning in" is the explanation for why Dumbledore was going to his office so late at night. If Dumbledore's living quarters were actually in his office then of course he would be going to his office, even if he didn't have business to attend to, because that's where he lived! Moreover, the fact that Harry didn't think that the obvious place for Dumbledore to be was his office might also lead us to believe that Dumbledore had living quarters elsewhere.
However, one could perhaps argue that the Bloody Baron and Nearly Headless Nick were simply giving over factual information and were not trying to explain why Dumbledore was in his office. One could also perhaps argue that Harry was simply foolish for not thinking that Dumbledore was in his office, or that he may have thought that Dumbledore had business to attend to elsewhere before turning in.
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As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
6
@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
29
True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
6
ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
6
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 15:02
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As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
6
@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
29
True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
6
ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
6
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 15:02
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41
As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
As Hogwarts is based on the British public school systems it's likely that each master had a small suite of rooms. Rather than living in their office they would have a living room, bedroom etc somewhere just off the office accessed by a private door. Their office would be the place where they interact with students who would not see those private rooms.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 10:34
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6
@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
@Sarriesfan My answer doesn't preclude this. I didn't bother to speculate where exactly in the offices the living quarters are.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 10:52
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29
True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
True but for those unfamiliar with such set ups they might imagine Dumbledore had a camp bed set up in one corner of his office. But given the general trappings of a British public school that Rolwing uses a suite of rooms is highly likely. It's why for example there are some many questions about the house system at Hogwarts here, the British audience Rowling was originally writing for understood it so it did not need explanation. For Foreign readers is unfamiliar and need to be clarified.
â Sarriesfan
Aug 19 at 11:01
6
6
ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
ThereâÂÂs also DumbledoreâÂÂs mention, during the Yule Ball, of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and accidentally coming across the Room of Requirement, as well as McGonagall showing up in the Gryffindor common room in a tartan night gown (or dressing gown, canâÂÂt remember) on more than one occasion, for example when Ron wakes up with Sirius standing over him in PoA or when Harry dream-sees the attack on Arthur Weasley in OotP and one of the others goes to fetch her.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 19 at 11:02
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6
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 15:02
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumledore says: âÂÂOnly this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. So it's not necessarily evidence about where he sleeps. I thought of the McGonagall quotes, but they only indicate that she sleeps somewhere in the castle, not that she sleeps specifically in (or off of) her office.
â Alex
Aug 19 at 15:02
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Dumbledore would have lived at Hogwarts during the school year.
The movie set had built and placed DumbledoreâÂÂs bedroom behind his office desk, behind his chair.

This diagram seems to show how his bedroom connects to his office, while his office still remains circular in appearance. (His bedroom looks to be on the bottom right.)

The green velvet near the top of his bedroom is visible in this picture of him in his office.

This seems consistent with the information in the books, as well. The teachers all seem to live in Hogwarts during the school year. Dumbledore himself is seen in his sleeping wear when he helps move Colin Creevey after heâÂÂs Petrified, so heâÂÂd been prepared for bed when he realized there was an emergency and he was needed to help.
âÂÂNext moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly dressing gown and a nightcap. He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
The emergency wasnâÂÂt the reason he was at Hogwarts, though. HeâÂÂd actually just been on his way downstairs for hot chocolate and found out about ColinâÂÂs being Petrified by chance, which seems to indicate he was living in Hogwarts. He was trying to get a snack in the middle of the night, which he wouldnâÂÂt be doing if heâÂÂd gone somewhere else to sleep and only returned in emergencies when heâÂÂd be needed. If he lived somewhere else, then heâÂÂd get himself late-night drinks there as well rather than returning to Hogwarts just to get himself hot chocolate.
âÂÂYes,â said Professor McGonagall. âÂÂBut I shudder to think ⦠If Albus hadnâÂÂt been on the way downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have â¦âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
This shows that DumbledoreâÂÂs living quarters would be upstairs from the kitchen, since he was going downstairs for his hot chocolate, which presumably heâÂÂd be getting from the Hogwarts kitchens. Where exactly his bedroom is, though, isnâÂÂt really clear, since Hogwarts is large and many things are above the kitchens. A possibility is that it could be in the same tower as his office.
âÂÂThe painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able to flit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in the HeadmasterâÂÂs office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was no doubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of DumbledoreâÂÂs collection of delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hat and, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
Though the staff does seem to all live in Hogwarts during the school year, thereâÂÂs not much detail given on where exactly their bedrooms are in the castle, since Harry doesnâÂÂt see where his teachers sleep. However, a JKR Pottermore writing says McGonagall lived in Hogwarts itself as well for some of the time she worked there, and further goes on to describe her quarters a bit more.
Minerva could not bear to remain alone in their cottage, but packed her things after ElphinstoneâÂÂs funeral and returned to her sparse stone-floored bedroom in Hogwarts Castle, accessible through a concealed door in the wall of her first-floor study.
- Professor McGonagall (Pottermore)
Dumbledore could have had a similar arrangement, with his living quarters somewhere inside the castle itself, perhaps hidden away somehow like McGonagallâÂÂs were. (When he was younger, Harry suspected he lived in his office, but thereâÂÂs nothing suggesting this is actually true - his office didnâÂÂt seem equipped for living in. However, his living quarters may have been accessible through it.)
3
Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
1
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
1
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
1
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
2
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
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Dumbledore would have lived at Hogwarts during the school year.
The movie set had built and placed DumbledoreâÂÂs bedroom behind his office desk, behind his chair.

This diagram seems to show how his bedroom connects to his office, while his office still remains circular in appearance. (His bedroom looks to be on the bottom right.)

The green velvet near the top of his bedroom is visible in this picture of him in his office.

This seems consistent with the information in the books, as well. The teachers all seem to live in Hogwarts during the school year. Dumbledore himself is seen in his sleeping wear when he helps move Colin Creevey after heâÂÂs Petrified, so heâÂÂd been prepared for bed when he realized there was an emergency and he was needed to help.
âÂÂNext moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly dressing gown and a nightcap. He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
The emergency wasnâÂÂt the reason he was at Hogwarts, though. HeâÂÂd actually just been on his way downstairs for hot chocolate and found out about ColinâÂÂs being Petrified by chance, which seems to indicate he was living in Hogwarts. He was trying to get a snack in the middle of the night, which he wouldnâÂÂt be doing if heâÂÂd gone somewhere else to sleep and only returned in emergencies when heâÂÂd be needed. If he lived somewhere else, then heâÂÂd get himself late-night drinks there as well rather than returning to Hogwarts just to get himself hot chocolate.
âÂÂYes,â said Professor McGonagall. âÂÂBut I shudder to think ⦠If Albus hadnâÂÂt been on the way downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have â¦âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
This shows that DumbledoreâÂÂs living quarters would be upstairs from the kitchen, since he was going downstairs for his hot chocolate, which presumably heâÂÂd be getting from the Hogwarts kitchens. Where exactly his bedroom is, though, isnâÂÂt really clear, since Hogwarts is large and many things are above the kitchens. A possibility is that it could be in the same tower as his office.
âÂÂThe painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able to flit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in the HeadmasterâÂÂs office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was no doubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of DumbledoreâÂÂs collection of delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hat and, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
Though the staff does seem to all live in Hogwarts during the school year, thereâÂÂs not much detail given on where exactly their bedrooms are in the castle, since Harry doesnâÂÂt see where his teachers sleep. However, a JKR Pottermore writing says McGonagall lived in Hogwarts itself as well for some of the time she worked there, and further goes on to describe her quarters a bit more.
Minerva could not bear to remain alone in their cottage, but packed her things after ElphinstoneâÂÂs funeral and returned to her sparse stone-floored bedroom in Hogwarts Castle, accessible through a concealed door in the wall of her first-floor study.
- Professor McGonagall (Pottermore)
Dumbledore could have had a similar arrangement, with his living quarters somewhere inside the castle itself, perhaps hidden away somehow like McGonagallâÂÂs were. (When he was younger, Harry suspected he lived in his office, but thereâÂÂs nothing suggesting this is actually true - his office didnâÂÂt seem equipped for living in. However, his living quarters may have been accessible through it.)
3
Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
1
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
1
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
1
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
2
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
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up vote
65
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up vote
65
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Dumbledore would have lived at Hogwarts during the school year.
The movie set had built and placed DumbledoreâÂÂs bedroom behind his office desk, behind his chair.

This diagram seems to show how his bedroom connects to his office, while his office still remains circular in appearance. (His bedroom looks to be on the bottom right.)

The green velvet near the top of his bedroom is visible in this picture of him in his office.

This seems consistent with the information in the books, as well. The teachers all seem to live in Hogwarts during the school year. Dumbledore himself is seen in his sleeping wear when he helps move Colin Creevey after heâÂÂs Petrified, so heâÂÂd been prepared for bed when he realized there was an emergency and he was needed to help.
âÂÂNext moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly dressing gown and a nightcap. He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
The emergency wasnâÂÂt the reason he was at Hogwarts, though. HeâÂÂd actually just been on his way downstairs for hot chocolate and found out about ColinâÂÂs being Petrified by chance, which seems to indicate he was living in Hogwarts. He was trying to get a snack in the middle of the night, which he wouldnâÂÂt be doing if heâÂÂd gone somewhere else to sleep and only returned in emergencies when heâÂÂd be needed. If he lived somewhere else, then heâÂÂd get himself late-night drinks there as well rather than returning to Hogwarts just to get himself hot chocolate.
âÂÂYes,â said Professor McGonagall. âÂÂBut I shudder to think ⦠If Albus hadnâÂÂt been on the way downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have â¦âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
This shows that DumbledoreâÂÂs living quarters would be upstairs from the kitchen, since he was going downstairs for his hot chocolate, which presumably heâÂÂd be getting from the Hogwarts kitchens. Where exactly his bedroom is, though, isnâÂÂt really clear, since Hogwarts is large and many things are above the kitchens. A possibility is that it could be in the same tower as his office.
âÂÂThe painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able to flit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in the HeadmasterâÂÂs office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was no doubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of DumbledoreâÂÂs collection of delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hat and, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
Though the staff does seem to all live in Hogwarts during the school year, thereâÂÂs not much detail given on where exactly their bedrooms are in the castle, since Harry doesnâÂÂt see where his teachers sleep. However, a JKR Pottermore writing says McGonagall lived in Hogwarts itself as well for some of the time she worked there, and further goes on to describe her quarters a bit more.
Minerva could not bear to remain alone in their cottage, but packed her things after ElphinstoneâÂÂs funeral and returned to her sparse stone-floored bedroom in Hogwarts Castle, accessible through a concealed door in the wall of her first-floor study.
- Professor McGonagall (Pottermore)
Dumbledore could have had a similar arrangement, with his living quarters somewhere inside the castle itself, perhaps hidden away somehow like McGonagallâÂÂs were. (When he was younger, Harry suspected he lived in his office, but thereâÂÂs nothing suggesting this is actually true - his office didnâÂÂt seem equipped for living in. However, his living quarters may have been accessible through it.)
Dumbledore would have lived at Hogwarts during the school year.
The movie set had built and placed DumbledoreâÂÂs bedroom behind his office desk, behind his chair.

This diagram seems to show how his bedroom connects to his office, while his office still remains circular in appearance. (His bedroom looks to be on the bottom right.)

The green velvet near the top of his bedroom is visible in this picture of him in his office.

This seems consistent with the information in the books, as well. The teachers all seem to live in Hogwarts during the school year. Dumbledore himself is seen in his sleeping wear when he helps move Colin Creevey after heâÂÂs Petrified, so heâÂÂd been prepared for bed when he realized there was an emergency and he was needed to help.
âÂÂNext moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly dressing gown and a nightcap. He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
The emergency wasnâÂÂt the reason he was at Hogwarts, though. HeâÂÂd actually just been on his way downstairs for hot chocolate and found out about ColinâÂÂs being Petrified by chance, which seems to indicate he was living in Hogwarts. He was trying to get a snack in the middle of the night, which he wouldnâÂÂt be doing if heâÂÂd gone somewhere else to sleep and only returned in emergencies when heâÂÂd be needed. If he lived somewhere else, then heâÂÂd get himself late-night drinks there as well rather than returning to Hogwarts just to get himself hot chocolate.
âÂÂYes,â said Professor McGonagall. âÂÂBut I shudder to think ⦠If Albus hadnâÂÂt been on the way downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have â¦âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
This shows that DumbledoreâÂÂs living quarters would be upstairs from the kitchen, since he was going downstairs for his hot chocolate, which presumably heâÂÂd be getting from the Hogwarts kitchens. Where exactly his bedroom is, though, isnâÂÂt really clear, since Hogwarts is large and many things are above the kitchens. A possibility is that it could be in the same tower as his office.
âÂÂThe painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able to flit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in the HeadmasterâÂÂs office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was no doubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of DumbledoreâÂÂs collection of delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hat and, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.âÂÂ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
Though the staff does seem to all live in Hogwarts during the school year, thereâÂÂs not much detail given on where exactly their bedrooms are in the castle, since Harry doesnâÂÂt see where his teachers sleep. However, a JKR Pottermore writing says McGonagall lived in Hogwarts itself as well for some of the time she worked there, and further goes on to describe her quarters a bit more.
Minerva could not bear to remain alone in their cottage, but packed her things after ElphinstoneâÂÂs funeral and returned to her sparse stone-floored bedroom in Hogwarts Castle, accessible through a concealed door in the wall of her first-floor study.
- Professor McGonagall (Pottermore)
Dumbledore could have had a similar arrangement, with his living quarters somewhere inside the castle itself, perhaps hidden away somehow like McGonagallâÂÂs were. (When he was younger, Harry suspected he lived in his office, but thereâÂÂs nothing suggesting this is actually true - his office didnâÂÂt seem equipped for living in. However, his living quarters may have been accessible through it.)
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Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
1
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
1
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
1
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
2
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
 |Â
show 2 more comments
3
Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
1
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
1
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
1
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
2
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
3
3
Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
Never thought about this before, but now I have to wonder: why was Dumbledore on the way downstairs for hot chocolate? It would be trivial in the extreme for him to simply conjure up a mug of it in his bedroom without needing to take so much as a single step out of bed. Totally pointless nighttime stroll!
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:00
1
1
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
@Bellatrix We see Dumbledore conjure up wine at the Dursleys; we see McGonagall conjure up sandwiches in her office for Harry and Ron; and though I canâÂÂt remember where it is now, IâÂÂm sure we even see someone conjure up a mug of steaming hot something-or-other at some point. ThereâÂÂs plenty of food available for the conjuring at HogwartsâÂÂDumbledore wouldnâÂÂt have any trouble with a simple hot chocolate.
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:41
1
1
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
@JanusBahsJacquet Dumbledore might still not have needed to get out of bed for his hot chocolate. He could Summon it if he wanted, though that might get messy if itâÂÂs uncovered. âÂÂItâÂÂs impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if youâÂÂve already got some âÂÂâ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The GoblinâÂÂs Revenge) He could also have it sent to his room - the house-elves make the food they cook appear in the Great Hall, and McGonagall has a plate that (presumably) they refill for her.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:44
1
1
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
There must be something more efficient than just summoning, too: Molly WeasleyâÂÂs cooking is specifically described at one point as thick, hot sauce emanating from the tip of her wand. Possibly some kind of transformation intended especially for foodstuffs. And then thereâÂÂs Aguamenti, which doesnâÂÂt seem to require any store of water (so water isnâÂÂt food?)â¦
â Janus Bahs Jacquet
Aug 20 at 23:47
2
2
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
@JanusBahsJacquet Molly WeasleyâÂÂs sauce-out-of-wand trick is asked about in this question. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93306/⦠The top answer is very good, and says everything I was planning to here. :) There are several ways it can coexist with GampâÂÂs Law without being a contradiction. I thought I remembered a question and answer on this topic, so I looked for it for you.
â Bellatrix
Aug 20 at 23:53
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Related or possibly duplicate? scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20251/â¦
â user13267
Aug 19 at 11:32
i would think that the headmaster would be different probably idk though.
â padfoot
Aug 19 at 15:39
In the GameBoy video games, every teacher has a bed in their office. Does that count? ;-)
â Julien Lopez
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