MM's Bathroom Location / Thanks

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 20206

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> --- floridian127 at y... wrote:
> > In CoS Moaning Myrtle's bathroom is stated to be on the 
> > first floor. Then when H/H/R run up the stairs and find 
> > Mrs Norris petrified they were on the second floor. They 
> > past the feast in the great hall, rounded the first floor 
> > and leaped up steps to the next floor [not exact]. Later 
> > it is on the first floor again. 
> > 
> > Write off as incorrect mention or moving staircase? 
> 
> The British (and maybe all Europeans, for all I know) refer to the
> ground floor and then start counting up from there.  Thus "the first
> floor" would be "the second floor" if Hogwarts was in North America.
> 
> As for petrified people/objects in different locations, I assumed
> that the basilisk moved around.
> 
> __________________________________________________

Actually, Hogwarts is a magic castle in the literal sense.

Dumbledore says in GoF he got up one morning and found himself in a 
room full of ornate and elaborate chamber pots.  He went back and 
could not find the room again. He offered guesses on why: perhaps the 
room only appears at 5:30 in the morning, or only to people who have 
very full bladders.

If one room vanishes and reappears or otherwise Brigadoons, it's no 
jump whatsoever to say the rest of the castle doesn't likewise 
rearrange itself to some degree.

[Which would make the Marauders Map that much more valuable if it 
rewrites itself to keep up with the changes].

Indigo