Fees for Harry / Running Water /... Bath, Stove, and More

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 179400

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
 
> But on the issue of the Bathroom, or more correctly the 'toilet',
> do you suppose the 'disposal' (he said euphemistically) aspect 
> of the room actually used water? Likely it used some kind of
> vanishing spell.


I thought bathroom was a room with a sink, a shower (a bathtub) and a 
toilet in it :-). Anyway, you are right and the toilet part of the 
tent's bathroom wouldn't require any water.


> Now Tap-water would be a different matter, there is really
> nothing to dispose of, just water-in/water-out.


But "water-in\water-out" also requires plumbing, which is nonexistent 
in this case. So what would it be, some kind of permanent Aguamenti 
on one end and a permanent vanishing spell on the other end :-)?

 
> By that I mean, does Molly merely have a cook stove-looking
> object in and upon which she casts her own flame charms, or
> are the flame charms actually built into the stove; turn a
> knob and magical flames appear?


This I cannot answer. I remember in GoF Molly lit the stove just by 
poking it with her wand, but it really doesn't say much. Maybe she 
cast a flame charm, but maybe she just used her wand to turn the 
stove on (instead of a knob). Maybe these stoves come with 
instructions: "To turn on - poke with a wand, to turn off - poke 
again":-).
  
 
> And as long as we are on the subject of cooking, which ties
> to the subject of food, where do wizards get their food? I
> don't recall hearing about or seeing or even the implication
> of a wizards grocer in any of the books.


Wasn't that you who said that if something is not mentioned in the 
book it doesn't mean it doesn't exist in WW? Or was it someone else 
:-)? Maybe there are wizard grocers and farmers. Besides, Hermione 
says that you can "increase the quantity" of the food if you have 
some, so the wizards wouldn't need a lot of food. They'll just get a 
little and then "increase the quantity" :-)!


zanooda