[HPforGrownups] Re: The Basilisk Didn't Do It

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 44963


Marina:

That is all very nice if you're travelling between two places that are
actually *connected* to each other by waterworks. Within a castle,
certainly. Within a limited city neighborhood, maybe. But Little
Hangleton is in an entirely different part of the country from
Hogwarts. Do you really suppose there's a vast underground labyrinth
of interconnected water pipes covering all of the UK? I know we're
supposed to suspend our disbelief from time to time, but the number of
logical leaps required to support the basilisk theory is getting a bit
out of hand, I think.

Me:

I do suppose that there's an underground labyrinth of water pipes under the
UK. I'm not an expert so I may be wrong but as far as I ever understood it
the water that comes into my house comes from a lake miles away through a
series of 'pipes' with dozens of branches that go in many different
direction reaching places far away from where I live. Couldn't the basilisk
travel all the way up to the starting point and get into the pipe that leads
somewhere completely different from Hogwarts? And then there is the sewer to
take into account, can't the basilisk travel through that too? and as you
know sewers get to rivers, and sometimes rivers get into other rivers that
have other sewers. To me it all seems quite possible and I don't feel I'm 
leaping' all over the place, but then I've always shown to posses a kind of
twisted logic, so you may be right!
rita