It's a reasonably plausible tap dance past the problem, but t's absolutely not supported by anything in canon. Hell there isn't even a school secretary, for ghod's sake. Just passwords to keep everyone from addressing the staff directly. No matter what the issue or how urgent the situation.
Indeed, all of Hogwarts is consistent with an 8-year-old's interpretation of how a school works. And that was just fine when these were all obviously children's books. But Rowling doesn't seem to give any thought past a certain point in the planning stage on any of the elements that she sets up. She never made any attempt to *keep* them children's books (and indeed claimed that she always intended them NOT to remain so). But whenever she wanted Harry to learn something new, she always dragged him out of Hogwarts to someplace else. She never seems to have shown him anything new *about Hogwarts* after she introduced the RoR. She certainly never let him notice that things worked in a more complex way or needed more staff to run it.
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Date: 2014-02-03 11:24 pm (UTC)Indeed, all of Hogwarts is consistent with an 8-year-old's interpretation of how a school works. And that was just fine when these were all obviously children's books. But Rowling doesn't seem to give any thought past a certain point in the planning stage on any of the elements that she sets up. She never made any attempt to *keep* them children's books (and indeed claimed that she always intended them NOT to remain so). But whenever she wanted Harry to learn something new, she always dragged him out of Hogwarts to someplace else. She never seems to have shown him anything new *about Hogwarts* after she introduced the RoR. She certainly never let him notice that things worked in a more complex way or needed more staff to run it.