Warning: This Harry Potter fact is kind of gross
Sorry!
Sorry!
Words – Meghan Kirby
Growing up, being a witch or wizard sounded like THE coolest because of the Harry Potter series — minus the whole Voldemort thing, because ugh. Growing up, Hogwarts was our dream school, Harry and the gang were our dream friends, and we couldn’t really ever see a downside to such a magical life, especially in comparison to the blandness of muggle life.
We have, however, recently learned a *seriously* gross downside to magical life — pre-plumbing. In an ebook from J.K. Rowling, titled Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide, Rowling cites plumbing as an example of the wizard community relying on muggle inventions. Apparently, pre-plumbing, wizards used to relieve themselves wherever they stood. (Um…)
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According to the ebook section on The Chamber of Secrets:
Rowling does a masterful job burying this little-known and quite gross fact. For those who may not understand how low-key gross this is, imagine dancing with your prom date for hours only for them to quickly relieve themselves in front of everyone and then take a sec to make it all vanish. You’d all still know it happened. Yeah, that would have happened all the time in the wizarding world before the 18th century!
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So while we’ll continue to lament about our mundane muggle (or no-maj) lives, we’ll be a little bit more grateful for our plumbing.
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