Map of Hogwarts

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 75598

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pen Robinson <pen at p...> wrote:
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> On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 22:04 Europe/London, Shaun Hately wrote:
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> >
> > Straw poll! Who thinks they'd have privacy partitions in the 
> > bathrooms...

> 
> At my boarding school there were several bathrooms which each 
> contained a bath, and usually also a washbasin.    
> 
> ...edited...
>
> Pen
> <voting for privacy while bathing>


bboy_mn:

I'm curious as to whether you are referring to one bathroom (as you
described) per dorm/student_living room, or in some cases, one shared
bath per two dorm rooms, or if you are referring to one large common
facility full of several separate individual baths and sinks. I got
the impression of individual private bathrooms.

The second question is, when you say 'bath' for you mean bathing area,
or specifically, a bathtub; if bathtub, then a bathtub with or without
shower capability? 


Perhaps the first question we should ask and answer is whether
Hogwarts is likely to have private/semi-private bathrooms, or if they
have common/communal bathrooms?

I can only use my personal NOT-UK college experience where dorm rooms
has a sink but that's all. A floor of dorm rooms used a common
bathroom and shower (no partitions between showers). I suspect that
covers a vast majority of colleges in the US. 

So the first question - Hogwarts Boarding School...

Private bath - one bathroom per dorm room?

Semi-private bath - one bathroom per two dorm rooms? Although, living
in a tower, doesn't make that likely.

Common/Communal bathroom? - Perhaps one floor of the tower is a large
bathroom for the boys, and another floor of the tower is a large
bathroom for the girls. Personally, this is has my vote. 

Or as an alternative, one floor split in half; boy on the right half,
girls on the left half, solid stone wall with no 'peep' holes
separating the two.


Then the next question is, what facilities, that is, what equipment is
contained in each bathroom?

Tubs, stools, sinks?

Tub/shower combinations, stools, sinks?

Showers only, stools, sinks?

Primarily group showers with a few tubs, stools, sinks?

No saunas, no hot tub/Jacuzzi, no steam room, no tanning beds, no
masseuse, etc...


Of course, there is no way for me to know, but here is what I suspect.

One tower floor for boys, and one for girls bathroom facilities, open
group showers with a few semi-private tubs, private toilet stalls,
rows of sinks, and a changing area outside the shower area. One wash
sink in each dorm room.

But, like I said, I have know way of knowing, so this is pure speculation.

bboy_mn