[HPforGrownups] Re: Map of Hogwarts

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 75297

On 4 Aug 2003 at 11:31, jeffl1965 wrote:

> 
>     Nicely done. Thank you for all the hard work. It looks quite good 
> to me, imho. I'll be looking forward to the changes. BTW, wouldn't 
> they have tubs, rather than showers? The Prefects have a tub, and as 
> old as Hogwarts is, I'd guess that they have tubs in all dorms. And 
> certainly not pirvacy stalls. Maybe new schools do, I guess, but many 
> old ones in Euro-Asia are still big tiled rooms with a few tubs, as 
> near as I can tell.  Anyway, thanks again for the hard work.

Yes, but until Order of the Phoenix, we had no hard data on what they 
had - we knew there was a Prefect's bathroom, and we knew the Quidditch 
pitch had showers. I went with showers simply as a space consideration 
in the absence of hard evidence. We had no details on what they had for 
normal bathing facilities. In Order of the Phoenix, we do have a clear 
reference to baths so the OOTP maps have taken that into account. As for 
privacy - mixed bag. There are plenty of schools where no privacy exists 
in the bathing facilities - there are plenty where it does - even quite 
old schools. I know a whole bunch of people who went to British boarding 
schools in the early 1990s (not quite contemporary with Hogwarts) and I 
did poll them to find out what they had around.

I mainly went with privacy stalls to avoid comments from certain people 
- I went to a boarding school, and in my real life I have to deal with 
other people's horror at the conditions I endured (they weren't bad in 
reality - some people just think they sound bad). I didn't really want 
those comments relating to the maps.

Straw poll! Who thinks they'd have privacy partitions in the bathrooms 
(NOT THE TOILETS - BRITISH ENGLISH HERE, PEOPLE - besides we have hard 
data on the toilets) at Hogwarts? Help me make the decision for my maps 
(-8



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