When someone actually writes an article about how the wizards in Harry Potter used to defecate on the floor and vanish the feces by magic before toilets were invented, she can't complain about the constant negative attention https://twitter.com/annie_eaton/status/1270046780521144321 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Also the fact that Hogwarts has had indoor plumbing and toilet facilities since its founding is a plot point in the second book.
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Replying to @scots_dragon
Well, no, that's how this came up, because she decided it was a plot hole that Hogwarts is a thousand years old but the Chamber of Secrets is hidden in a running-water bathroom (which didn't exist until the 1700s)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean. It's simple enough to say 'wizards invented this sort of stuff early because they're wizards and do magic'.
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Replying to @scots_dragon @arthur_affect
Especially since the mechanism to access the Chamber of Secrets is hidden behind part of the bathroom's sinks, which means that when they installed the bathrooms in the 1700s there must have been another heir of Slytherin doing part of the renovating. So, more plot holes.
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Replying to @scots_dragon
Yeah that's what the article she did for Pottermore was about, Corvinus Gaunt infiltrating the Hogwarts renovation project as the plumber
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Replying to @arthur_affect @scots_dragon
The whole thing raises still more questions, of course, since if Corvinus Gaunt knew where the entrance to the Chamber was then that makes HIM Slytherin's Heir, so why didn't he just open the Chamber himself and reconquer the school like the prophecy demands
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Replying to @arthur_affect @scots_dragon
Why was *everyone* too chickenshit to actually fulfill the prophecy, even though they were all super invested in the concept and Corvinus Gaunt went to all this effort to upgrade the secret passage for a future Heir and everything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @scots_dragon
Even the real, original Tom Riddle never got around to actually using the Basilisk to conquer the school, even though you'd think that would be a pretty big damn asset for the war he wanted to start when he became Voldemort Why was there this giant loose end just lying around
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(Because she thought of the plot of Book #2 as its own standalone thing and never really integrated it with everything else because the books weren't that serious yet at that point, obviously But still)
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