[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizarding Teabags? and muggle inventions

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 1516

What I find interesting are the contradictions that exist in JKR's wizard
world/muggle world interfaces.  For instance, why should Hogwarts, built
over a thousand years ago, have a thoroughly modern, even luxurious
(prefects' bathroom) plumbing system, and yet have no electricity?  The
plumbing must have existed in some form from the beginning, as the pipe
leading to the Chamber of Secrets was supposedly only known to Salazar
Slytherin, unless he had a devoted and silent minion who was around when
they installed the plumbing in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

Or why Arthur Weasley, who is in daily contact with "muggle artifacts,"
should be so hopeless inept when trying to interact with the Muggle world.

Or, as Vicki said, why do they use a Muggle-type train running from a hub of
the Muggle railway transportation system?

Or, as someone pointed out previously, why does Madame Malkin use pins to
hem up the robes of her customers?

Are we being a little obsessive?  Yeah... but it's fun!





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