![]() I would presume that it is them who added the snake motif, although I can't find anything that says Corvinus Gaunt was definitely the one who added it, or who might have done it in the years after him. This article explains (although it doesn't explain how he did it) that a Slytherin descendant ensured the concealment of the Chamber when Hogwarts introduced plumbing. The presence in school at the time of a student called Corvinus Gaunt – direct descendant of Slytherin, and antecedent of Tom Riddle – explains how the simple trapdoor was secretly protected, so that those who knew how could still access the entrance to the Chamber even after newfangled plumbing had been placed on top of it.Ĭhamber of Secrets by J.K. However, when Hogwarts’ plumbing became more elaborate in the eighteenth century (this was a rare instance of wizards copying Muggles, because hitherto they simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence), the entrance to the Chamber was threatened, being located on the site of a proposed bathroom. When first created, the Chamber was accessed through a concealed trapdoor and a series of magical tunnels. While we can't say for sure who added the snake to the taps, we can find from an article on Pottermore that a member of the Gaunt family added the sink when plumbing was introduced to Hogwarts: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 16, The Chamber of Secrets And then Harry saw it: scratched on the side of one of the copper taps was a tiny snake. ![]() Inside and out, including the pipes below. I had forgotten that the snake on the tap is not only in the film, but in the book as well!
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