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

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 88309



> 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.
>
K

Actually I think that proves it's been remodelled at some point because it
looked like an ordinary sink, not a thousand year old sink. I don't exactly
know how they would remodel without moving the tap - but then they would
probably remodel with magic rather than calling in a plumber so it's more a
case of transfiguring things than moving them too much. There may even be
spells where you can add the provision when transfiguring things that you
want it to still work at the end - otherwise you'd need the detailed plans
of where the plumbing goes every time you wanted to change things. The fact
is if it looks like a modern bathroom then either it's been pretty heavily
remodelled over the last thousand years, or Slytherin and co could see the
future and tell what developments in technology (obviously magical
technology not muggle technology) were going to happen over that period.

K