No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

[jeffl1965]

No: HPFGUIDX 83585

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "purple_801999" 
<purple_801999 at y...> wrote:
>  
>    Jeff wrote:
> >      Also, being rather old-fashioned, I'd guess that the school 
> > wouldn't use hotwater bottles, but rather do it the old way, with 
> the 
> > heated briquets in the pan instead. Rubber is too much of a 
muggle 
> > invention for them to use, imho. But I could be wrong.
> 
> 
> It sounds as if they use heating pans. I think I remember in GoF 
> Harry being grateful the beds were pre warmed by the house elves 
with 
> heating pans. It's not so much that a hotwater bottle is too 
> muggleish but that a heating pan warms a bed better. A hotwater 
> bottle really only warms a small area of a bed unless kept against 
a 
> person. A heating pan would get the whole bed toasty.
> 
> Olivia


  Jeff:
    I'd forgotten about that scene, but yes, heating pans is what I 
was meaning. I just couldn't recall the darn name. ;) It also wasn't 
that the bottle is mugglish, but that they tend to prefer the old 
way, as I was stating. We don't see much modern items in Hogwarts at 
all. I'm not even certain that those rather modern looking sinks and 
commodes that we see in the films would be what they'd have there 
either.  Not that I think they'd have the really old castle loos, but 
at least those old loos with the chain and the water tank high above 
your head. ;) And again, they'd use those old large claw-foot tubs 
rather than modern showers, except for the Quidditch Lockerroom, 
since we know from the books that they have one there.



   Jeff