[HPforGrownups] Modern Plumbing (was Re: Heir of Slytherin and Dumbledore)

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

No: HPFGUIDX 58774

Ersatz Harry napisa:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stardancerofas" <glcherry at b...>
> wrote:
>> Now me Lorrie: This has been bothering me for quite awhile. How is 
>> it, that a school that has been searched countless times by skilled
>> Wizards and Witches nobody noticed this? I mean we can reasonably
>> argue that the Bathroom wasn't always a bathroom. Modern plumbing was
>> installed at some point, and no one, not the Plumber or his assitant
>> noticed that there was a giant crater down there? Nobody ever
>> mentioned it to the Headmaster / Headmistress?
> 
> It is kind of odd that the WW does not have electricity or automobiles
> or any number of other modern conveniences, but yet it does have
> plumbing.  You'd think that there might have been some sort of wizard
> outhouse technology...

Well, plumbing is in fact very old invention. It was widely used in 
ancient Rome. Romans used aqueducts and lead pipelines (plumbing is 
based on latin word plumbum meaning lead) to deliver water to building, 
and huge network of sewers to take waste from building to Tever river. 
(BTW. those aqueducts were so good that some are still in use today!)
So, it is entirely possible that such convieniences were installed at 
Hogwarts when the castle was build.

That raise interesting question: how old is WW? I mean, when exactly 
Wizards and Muggles created their separate societies? Was it first 
cities (8000 BC?), ancient Egypt (4000 BC?), ancient Greece (400 BC?), 
or perhaps Charlemagne (800 AD?). One might wonder if WW suffered the 
same setbacks as Muggle societies -- Dark Ages in Medieval Times, black 
death and the like...
I personally belive, that such separation took place in ancient Sumer or 
Babylon (3000-2000 BC), because there were a civilisation as we know now 
with laws, schools, letters, banks, diplomacy, spies and of course magic.

Regards,
Pshemekan