[HPforGrownups] Re: World Building (was Why did Snape _really_ hate Harry?)

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 187099

Carol:
But the problem is that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, which
was created by Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago, is a water
faucet (or tap) in a girls' restroom with what appears to be early
twentieth-century plumbing. How could that faucet have been there a
thousand years ago unless the ancient wizards had modern plumbing?

Lynda:
I understand the problem. I did think of that myself. My answer (very
possibly not Rowling's though) is that Hogwarts is a castle imbued
with centuries of ancient magic. So, perhaps, by some means unknown to
those who
designed the modernized bathrooms, the magic of the castle caused the
opening to the COS to fix itself to the new, modernized drain system.
Much in the same way, food is magicked onto the tables of the dining
room for every meal. Maybe castle proud House Elves even helped as
part of their duty to the school's headmaster/staff/students of the
time.

Lynda