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

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 58819

I think I didn't phrase my original comment so well, and my use of the
phrases "wizard outhouse" (which sounds very low-tech) and "modern
conveniences" confused things even more.  Hydrxuk and I are actually
in agreement.  In my original comment below, change "have" to "need"
and that gets closer to the mark.

In other words, in a world that can avoid the polluting effects of
electricity production and internal combustion engines (granting the
MoM exceptions), why are water-based flush toilets needed at all? (And
ones that dump into the lake, no less...)

Yes, wizards are humans and have human needs, but I would think magic
could be brought to bear on the technological problem of human waste
disposal more than is evident from the books.  Then again, maybe
there's a magical sewage plant at the bottom of the lake.

Ersatz Harry, who is trying to resist asking the question "what's the
poop?"


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hydrxuk" <mpe at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ersatz Harry" <ersatzharry at y...> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> In many ways it's the Muggle World (MW) which is playing catch up.