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

Berit Jakobsen belijako at online.no
Fri Jan 9 14:50:13 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 88307

K wrote:
> 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)

Berit replies:

At least there is evidence that Moaning Myrtle's bathroom always has 
been some kind of a bathroom, and it can't have been remodelled too 
heavily. If someone tried to remove or replace the sink, they might 
have discovered the passageway underneath it. If not, they might have 
destroyed or removed the "mechanism" that opens the chamber of 
secrets; the copper tap on the sink:

Quote: "It looked like an ordinary sink. They examined every inch of 
it, inside and out, including the pipes below. And then Harry saw it: 
scratched on the side of one of the copper taps was a tiny snake." 
(CoS p. 222 UK Ed).

So at least the sink and its copper tap must be the original one.

Berit
http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html





More information about the HPforGrownups archive