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

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No: HPFGUIDX 88380

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
...big snip here...
> Well, as you see I'm still a bit inclined the plumbing 
system/pipes 
> etc. were there at Salazar's time, unless some later, "modern" 
Heir 
> of Slytherin-engineer knowing about the chamber of secrets made 
sure 
> the pipes connected to the chamber when it was installed many 
hundred 
> years later. Which I doubt somehow. At least that person seem to 
have 
> been able to restrain him or herself to not unleash the chamber's 
> monster :-)
> 
> Well, I like arguing :-)
> 
> Berit


Well, I like "arguing" too, so here goes my theory. Magic works on 
objects to turn them into something else. Example: lead into gold. 
When Hogwarts was first fashioned by the founding four, each of them 
took objects to create into the castle. Suits of armor may or may 
not have been armor when the castle was created. Over the years of 
redecoration a statue may have been upgraded to a suit of armor. A 
column "recarved" magically to reflect an "art deco" look to match 
the new decor. Salazar's plumbing fixture, modeled after what was 
fashionable in that time (FYI BC Romans had plumbing and toilets) 
and subsequently modified with magic to fit the new decor. 

We muggles, for those on the list who think this way, do not see 
the  'shifting of the veil' that differenciates the physical realm 
from the meta. This reason makes us think in terms of "There weren't 
taps before...(insert date here)" therefore the object didn't exist. 
I argue that the object's nature existed and was modified to fit 
modern standards. A rock is a hammer, a hammer becomes a prybar, the 
prybar becomes a lever, the lever moves a rock. 

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