Yahoo Movies Harry Potter reveals how witches and wizards used to poo
It’s a question that's been on no-one's lips, and unthankfully we now know exactly how the wizarding world relieved themselves before plumbing.
Yep, Harry Potter's online compendium Pottermore decided to jump on the #NationalTriviaDay bandwagon this week by giving us a seriously gross bit of knowledge.
So, if you're eating your dinner, we'd advise you turn back now.
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According to the site, before the muggle advent of plumbing became a thing, witches and wizards used to use a bit of magic to make their waste vanish.
"Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms," it revealed in a tweet that has since gone viral. "Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence." Okay...
Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence. #NationalTriviaDay
- Pottermore (@pottermore) January 4, 2019
This has naturally sparked a lot of questions among fans:
Wait. Does the Harry Potter poop just turn invisible or does it fully vanish in some way?
As is there just a ton of invisible poo around Hogwarts?- TP|TeamHenke|Zoey (@ZoeyyGreen) January 5, 2019
What do I say would have happened instead?
Obviously, the wizards would have invented "toilets" first. Charmed chamber pots or something that just vanish what you put into them.
So, IMHO, either Rowling doesn't care to put care into her fictional world or she has a fetish.- StarSumiaki (@StarSumiaki) January 5, 2019
Harry Potter? More like Harry POOTER. Get it? Bc they all shit themselves, apparently, because who needs bathrooms when you're a wizard?
I don't know anything about Harry Potter, but that fun fact has ruined everything.- i abandon my humanity (@skull_nymph) January 5, 2019
While others were just... well, grossed the hell out:
harry potter in 2007: friendship & courage defeats all evil
harry potter in 2019: yeah so wizards actually used to shit and piss themselves https://t.co/NT8CI9IFhh- beth mccoll (@imteddybless) January 4, 2019
- Chee Buttersnaps 🌜🎄🌛 (@gocartcartgo) January 5, 2019
- Rubee 🐝✨ Ruby Hart (@RubeePlays) January 5, 2019
I mean, we think GAME OF THRONES is grimdark but there’s nothing more disturbing than imagining Harry Potter’s magical grandparents locking eyes under the stars on the Quidditch field and then just, like, pooping.
- Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) January 4, 2019
And on the topic of struggling to deal with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley star Rupert Grint recently revealed that he struggles to watch any of the movies after The Prisoner of Azkaban.
"I think those early ones are OK," he said. "More time has passed. I can detach myself a bit more from that kid. I did see Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stonenot long ago, for the first time since the premiere, and I actually enjoyed looking back.
"But the more recent ones I definitely couldn’t do. I could probably go up to [third film] Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban."
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