That's an idea with HUGE potential if Rowling wants to turn the idea of brownies into some kind of commentary on slavery -- do humans keep house-elves enslaved out of fear, because their only experience with "free" house-elves is as dangerous and terrifying boggarts?
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She clearly knows what a chamber pot is, because she had the incident with Dumbledore finding the Room of Requirement filled with chamber pots in Goblet of Fire She just fucked up (or some intern working for her fucked up) and then rather than fix it, doubled down on it
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As is her custom
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the real question is, why didn't they vanish it *before* they pooped it out makes you think
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Too high risk of taking out some of your intestine with it
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And indoor plumbing in some form had existed in various places going back over 3,000 years before then. Like, wizards having indoor plumbing before others wouldn't be a stretch.
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Right?! Like, she knows Bath, England exists, right??? The baths have been there since the 1st century
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If you had a choice between constructing sewer or septic systems, waste treatment plants, and retrofitting toilets into every existing building, or just magically vanishing waste was your people had done for centuries, why would anyone choose the former?
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Also why did they have to wait for indoor plumbing to be invented? Couldn't they enchant some magical toilets that weren't connected to anything and just vanished waste when flushed, and magical sinks that just spit water out of nowhere?
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