the WW's creativity

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142601

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darqali" <darqali at y...> wrote:

<big snip>

 > 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


actually, the Roman Empire had plumbing over 4000 years ago.  They 
were very clean.  When the Romans withdrew from Britian, France, etc, 
that is when the locals went back to their dirty ways :)  and they 
did not fix the plumbing, aqueducts and bath houses the Romans left 
behind.

http://www.theplumber.com/eng.html

colebiancardi
(giving the Roman Empire credit where it is due :))