Fees for Harry / Running Water / Wand Lore

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179377

catlady wrote:
> If that tent had running water when they used that same tent at the
Quidditch World Cup, why did our three take the tea kettle to fill it
at an outdoor tap, thus overhearing old Archie proclaim that he likes
a nice breeze around his privates?
> 
Tiffany replied:
> I do believe that the tent they used in DH was a different tent than
what they used at the world cup. I don't remember who they borrowed
the GoF one from.
> 
Carol responds:

They used two tents at the QWC, one for the boys and one for the
girls, both of which belonged to Mr. Weasley's old colleague, Perkins.
As someone else has pointed out, HRH fetched water at the QWC in order
to pass as Muggles (the same reason that they put up the tent by hand
and lit the fire using matches). They could, had Mr. Weasley not been
so eager to pose as a Muggle, have used running water and cooked their
food in the tent: "He [Harry] had walked into what looked like an
old-fashioned, three-room flat, complete with bathroom and kitchen"
(GoF am. ed. 80)--possibly, the Bloomsbury version says "complete with
toilet and kitchen," I don't know. A few lines later, Ron says, "But
we've got an oven. why can't we just--" and Mr. Weasley says, "Ron,
anti-Muggle security!" (80). They draw water from the pump for the
same reason. Muggle tents, alas, don't have plumbing.

The tent that HRH used in DH, which Harry summons from Hermione's
beaded bag, is the larger one used by the boys:

"The tent emerged in a lumpy mass of canvas, rope, and poles. Harry
recognized it, partly because of the smell of cats, as the same tent
in which they had slept on the night of the Quidditch World Cup . . .
The interior was exactly as Harry remembered it: a small flat,
complete with bathroom and tiny kitchen" (DH Am. ed. 273). Hermione,
unlike Mr. Weasley, has no reservations about drawing water from the
tap to make tea or heating the kettle on the stove rather than a
campfire, or so I assume since she heads for the kitchen to make the
tea rather than striking the kettle with her wand (274).

HRH lose this tent when the Snatchers come, but Bill lends them
another one (presumabaly, the second, smaller tent) for future use
when they're at Shell Cottage (521). Unfortunately, just as they're
getting ready to camp after escaping from Gringotts, Voldemort
realizes that the cup Horcrux has been stolen, so the second tent
never gets used.

Carol, wondering why Harry apparently never uses the magical razor he
receives for his birthday since the tent's bathroom surely includes a
mirror