The Map (Blocked Passage)

[Chelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 98235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> wrote:
> > Probono:
> > I just always assumed that these 2 passages were connected somehow 
> > and both led to the chamber. After the collapse there is another 
> > door that Harry has to get through using parseltongue. Fred and 
> > George wouldn't be able to get into the chamber or probably even 
> > recognize the solid wall as a door to a chamber. I just figured the 
> > other passage runs past the chamber and onto Hogsmeade.
> 
> Mandy here:
> Yes I agree. There had to have been a way for Tom Riddle to get in 
> and out of the Chamber.
> 
> We know of only one way in, and that is from the sink in the girl's 
> bathroom. A pipe leading down hundreds of feet below the school, but 
> you can't get out of the Chamber that way.  Only the Basilisk could, 
> as it was a blood big snake that can slither up and out of vertical 
> pipes.  No human would ever climb out of that pipe Harry, Ron and 
> Lockhart slid down to get into the Chamber.  Remember Fawlks flew 
> them out.  
> 
> There has to be another entrance.  One that Tom used fifty years 
> earlier to get in and out, and one that will be used again, as the 
> girl's bathroom entrance is now partially blocked by the rubble from 
> Ron's wand backfiring the Memory Charm onto Lockhart.


Myrtle, and I think Tom,  said it was in the girl's loo and I believe
them. 
If the school was built a thousand years ago I'd like to think it was
done in the style the Romans did their plumbing. (Who had working
toilets before the rest of us. They took it from the Greeks, who
coincidentally, never mede it to England.)
I'm not sure about in-home construction, but I'm familliar with what
stands still in some parts of underground London. They planned big and
made plans for monumental growth. Maybe the pipes in Hogwarts are huge
as well?
The basalisk in the movie was huge, but at a person who read ancient
myths as a kid I'll tell you, that was no Basilisk. It was the love
child of a amputee frill lizard and a overgrown snake. 
Anyone know anything about Roman plumbing?
And who said Salazar was the only one who made himself a rec room? It
could lead to a place Rowena or Helga built. (As Harry finds a room
full of ancient, unfinished needlework...)

~ Chelle
BASILISKS HAVE FEET!!!