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

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 187102

>Carol wrote:
>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?

No.Limberger responds:
Salazar Slytherin made the Chamber of Secrets, as well as the
secret means of getting to it.  He no doubt deliberately hid the
chamber in the drainage/sewage system so that the basilisk
would have no difficulty infiltrating many areas of the castle
unnoticed.  Thus, the only plausible explanation, imo, is that
1000 years ago, the WW had what we would consider to be
modern plumbing or a reasonable facsimile.

>Carol wrote:
>I suppose that the school could have had Roman-style plumbing
>upgraded to twentieth-century style later, but the implication is
>that the sink that doesn't work, and the serpent-decorated faucet
>has been there for a thousand years.

No.Limberger responds:
To do such an upgrade, imo, could have easily exposed the
location of the Chamber of Secrets, as well as the secret
entrance through the sink areal; unless Slytherin placed some
kind of curse upon the entrance and its connecting network
of pipes that leads to the Chamber of Secrets that would
provide additional protection.  I prefer the view that the WW
had the equivalent of modern plumbing and fixtures 1000 years
earlier, unless, like the Room of Requirement, Hogwarts
bathrooms could transfigure themselves to continually appear
to keep up with current bathroom fixture designs without
disturbing Slytherin's handiwork.

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