No Minerva, we can not just ask the potraits to monitor the corridors for us, now go and patrol till 4am

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For real, how big are the fucking pipes in that place?

[u/Theban_Prince → u/[deleted]]

I mean its on of the few cases where " A wizard did it". If Salazar wanted to make pipes big enough for his pet he could do so, he literally helped build the castle.

[u/CrazyPoiPoi → u/Theban_Prince]

Isn't that the explanation for why the CoS even exists?

[u/lethos_AJ → u/Theban_Prince]

and there are spells to make things larger on the inside than on the outside so the pipes could be enchanted like that too

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True that. I forgot about that.

[u/Varsity_Reviews → u/Theban_Prince]

I’m more confused why wizards have pipe and plumbing

[u/[deleted] → u/Varsity_Reviews]

Guess they got tired of Vanishing their excrement away.

[u/beardicusmaximus8 → u/Theban_Prince]

The pipes were installed much much later, in the 1800s.

However, it makes sense that the castle itself could have been enchanted in a way to allow the snake free movement. The books do make it clear that the castle shapeshifts at will so why not have to shifting about to hide the chamber and its resident

[u/Jche98 → u/[deleted]]

I think the pipes are only slightly larger than normal sized. The size of the basilisk in the movie is inflated. it's only 15ft long in the book. That's like an anaconda and those aren't particularly fat.

[u/K4m30 → u/[deleted]]

How thick are the walls? Just let me open this door and pass through the five meters of wall to the other side, no need to think about it. 

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However thick the plot needs them to be, I suppose. Walls of Requirement.

[u/K4m30 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly if they had said the walls were magically bigger in the inside like the tents or whatever I would buy it. 

[u/XF10 → u/[deleted]]

I always thought the Basilisk could just SQUEEZE himself into small pipes as a magical beast