Modern plumbing? (was:If DD knows, then why...?)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 94160

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, bufo_viridis at i... wrote:

Carol: 
> > Professor Binns's comment that "the school has been searched for 
such
> > a chamber, many times, by the most learned wizards and witches" 
(SS
> > Am. ed. 151). This group includes DD because Binns adds, after 
arguing
> > that the Chamber is a mere legend, "If a long succession of 
Hogwarts
> > headmasters and headmistresses haven't found the thing-- . . . I
> > repeat, if the likes of Dumbledore--" (152). [snip] Or, as Binns 
reluctantly tells the students, only the Heir
> > could unseal it (151), but evidently once it had been unsealed,
> > another Parselmouth could open it [...]

Viridis:
> Probably it has been discussed before (sorry in such case.) 
SLytherin built in the Chamber of Secrets ca. thousands years ago. 
The ntrance to the chapter is behind the think on which tap there is 
a tiny snake engraved. 
> Was such modern plumbing available at Founders' times? Or the 
ntrance then was masked by stone basin with cold water and in the 
course of Hogwarts many rebuilts magically "transplanted" itself onto 
more modern homologue?

Geoff:
There is a thread which might be of interest to follow through - "Why 
put the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in a girl's bathroom?" It 
begins at message 88282.