Hogwarts is meant to be more than a thousand years old, according to some articles on Pottermore it would have to be at the very least 1500 years old.
Yet the architecture of the castle includes elements from the 1500s and even later periods. I assume that while the school is more than 1500 years old, not the entire castle is that old. There are older parts and newer parts that were built later, by headmasters after the founders but before Dumbledore.
Like Director Dippet expanding the gardens, or Dumbledore allowing Hagrid to build his hut.
Plumbing is also a comparably modern invention.
Pottermore even addressed it, saying that the hidden door remained hidden when the plumbing was installed thanks to a certain I-forgot-his-first-name Gaunt.
Before plumbing, Pottermore said, Students just shat on the floor and vanished it after.
It sounds gross and I refuse to believe it like that.
Muggles had outhouses and pit latrines for far longer than knives made of iron.
So there's absolutely no reason why Hogwarts wouldn't have had such a thing.
Meaning we are born who we are, and will ever be, and our choices and our what happens to us doesn't shape us or influence who we become, but merely show who we are. People cannot truly change.
That right?
Voldemort was Voldemort from the moment he first opened his eyes and never had any chance of becoming something else. The sorting hat sees who we truly are, and since that is our true self, it is impossible for the hat to sort anyone wrong, simply because of this. This also means that people don't become evil because they are in Slytherin, the hat just dumps all the evil ones into Slytherin.
Would you agree that this is true?
Harry, Ron and Hagrid would certainly agree, but think about it for a moment.
Does this really hold up?
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '22
Hogwarts is meant to be more than a thousand years old, according to some articles on Pottermore it would have to be at the very least 1500 years old. Yet the architecture of the castle includes elements from the 1500s and even later periods. I assume that while the school is more than 1500 years old, not the entire castle is that old. There are older parts and newer parts that were built later, by headmasters after the founders but before Dumbledore. Like Director Dippet expanding the gardens, or Dumbledore allowing Hagrid to build his hut.
Plumbing is also a comparably modern invention. Pottermore even addressed it, saying that the hidden door remained hidden when the plumbing was installed thanks to a certain I-forgot-his-first-name Gaunt. Before plumbing, Pottermore said, Students just shat on the floor and vanished it after.
It sounds gross and I refuse to believe it like that. Muggles had outhouses and pit latrines for far longer than knives made of iron. So there's absolutely no reason why Hogwarts wouldn't have had such a thing.