the WW's creativity

[darqali]

No: HPFGUIDX 142597

I for one don't see the WW as lacking creativity or being "backward" 
compared to the Muggle world.

Some time ago I observed that entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was 
in the plumbing of a girl's toilet, but that the Chamber was built 
into the origional castle by one of the founders {S.Slythern} about 
1000 years in the past!  And, the "monster" basilisk snake creature 
got all around the castle by slithering through the plumbing pipes 
....

Someone countered that the original entrance might have been 
elsewhere and incorporated into the toilet fixtures when the castle 
was later up-dated to include modern plumbing .... but how do we 
square that with the little snake on the pipes, which Harry spoke to 
in order to activate the opening?  Only a Parseltongue could have 
created such a magical device.

No, clearly Wizards invented plumbing many years prior to its use by 
the Muggle world.  And Wizard plumbing just *works*, because the 
pipes stay clear by *magic*; wizards don't even need "plumbles" 
because in the normal course of events, their pipes don't clog up 
..... we only see a problem when an object of Dark Magic is thrown 
into the works [Ginny Weasley caused the toilet to overflow when she 
tried to flush Tom Riddle's diary .... but Tom wasn't about to let it 
go out to the lake, was he? ]

Now, my theory is that some poor squib had to make his way in the 
Muggle world, being unable to use magic, and he became the first to 
introduce modern plumbing to Muggles.  [We may even know his name 
.... Thomas Crapper, was it not, credited with "inventing" the flush 
toilet?  But he must have been just a poor squib, passing off a long 
held Wizzard technology as his own invention ... :-}  ].  Of course, 
our Muggle plumbing has no magic to keep it going so we need 
"plumbles" to sort things out when pipes  clog up and tiolets up-
chuck their contents.....

And so for many other things we see the Wizarding World use, that are 
also used by Muggles:  Why assume Muggles had them first?   For 
according to canon, Wizards had indoor plumbing 1000 years ago ....

Darqali