Small flint?
blenberry
blenberry at altavista.com
Fri Jan 11 22:19:28 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 33223
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Fallenhunter" <fallenhunter at n...> wrote:
> > In CoS, Moaning Myrtle dives into the toilet and comes to
> > rest "somewhere in the U-bend" (p 157).
> >
> > When we encounter her again in GoF, she is described as "usually
to be
> > heard sobbing in the S-bend of a toilet three floors below" (p
461).
> >
> > <snip> so which do toilets have?
>
> Both, depending, they have an S bend if it's a P trap, a U bend if
it's
> a J trap... (basically a P trap goes from the sink to the back
wall,
> a J trap goes through the floor.)
>
> Fallenhunter
Aha... so Myrtle's toilet would have one or the other, but not both,
correct? So this *is* a minor flint? I checked the British/American
part of the lexicon and there's no mention of this, so I'm guessing
the inconsistency is in the British editions as well.
BB
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