CoS entrance in modern bathroom

[jrober4211]

No: HPFGUIDX 34959

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jklb66" <jklb66 at y...> wrote:
> Some people have asked, "How did the entrance to the Chamber of 
> Secrets, which was built 1,000 years ago, come to be in a bathroom 
> with modern plumbing?"  
> 
> My theory:  You have to remember that the entrance is magic; that 
the 
> entrance truly only comes into existence when the correct ritual 
> (saying "Open" in pareltongue) is performed.  It isn't like the 
> entrance is physically there, but hidden behind a secret panel.  
The 
> POTENTIAL for the entrance is always there instead.  Presumably, 
that 
> room was something else at the school's founding, and was converted 
> into a bathroom later.  No one found the entrance during the 
> necessary renovations, because the entrance didn't physically exist.
> 
> OK, someone look this up because I can't find my CoS. I thought 
that the large pipe that the kids found behind the sink lead to a 
network of subterranean tunnels. Harry followed the tunnel system , 
once he, Ron, and Lockhart slid down the pipes to a giant open area 
where the chamber doors were. Wasn't ginny lying in front of the 
doors to the chamber and wasn't TR standing next to the entrance of 
the chamber that had held the Basilisc? The point I'm making is that 
the giant pipe was not the entrance to the CoS, but possibly one of 
many ways to get to the tunnel system that lead to the CoS as the 
giant snake, once freed, was making the rounds of the castle through 
this ancient plumbing system.

Jo Ellen