TOILET BREAKS AND BATHS

zebco606 zebco606 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 8 03:19:56 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 68254

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
> Kat said 
> "I guess that the fact that students take baths/showers is just 
> backstory, meaning that of course they do, but it's not relevant 
to 
> the story, so it's never really mentioned. The bathrooms are only 
> mentioned (like in CoS) when they're relevant, such as Moaning 
> Myrtle's bathroom being used as a hiding spot to make the 
Polyjuice 
> potion. I assume that all of the students have to go the bathroom 
> at some point or another, but it's never really mentioned either."
> 
> <ME>
> 
> Its mentioned big time by Dumbledore in GOF as major foreshadowing 
> for the Room of Requirement in OOP-remember he jokes about waking 
in 
> the middle of the night and needing a bathroom only to find a room 
> filled with chamber pots?
> 
> Atropos G.

Well, there is that wonderful prefects bathroom in GoF. And Cedric 
mentions that he solved the clue while taking a bath.

Dorothy





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