[HPforGrownups] Why put the entrance tothe Chamber of Secrets in a girl's bathroom?

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 88301





> vmonte writes:
>
> Just a thought here.  Why did Salazar put the COS in a girl's
> bathroom?  Was he specifically waiting for a female heir to open the
> chamber?  Was the choice of Ginny (instead of another Weasley) random
> or intentional?  Are the Weasley's descendants of Slytherin?  And
> have they made the choice (like Harry did) to be more like
> Gryffindor?
>

K

There's no real reason to assume it was a girl's bathroom 1000 years ago. It
was probably still a bathroom but since it now looks like a modern one I
think we can assume it has been somewhat remodelled in the last millennium,
in which case it may have been a boys bathroom, or a staffbathroom or even a
*private* bathroom at one stage. If the ww population has grown in the last
thousand years (and with the massive growth in the  muggle population over
that time that's not an unreasonable hypothesis) then there would have been
less students and some of the staff might have had large apartments
(especially if they had family at the school)

K