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The fan response has mostly been why, god, why?

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with a few intrepid souls really thinking this wild assertion through.

How did they clean the booty?

What about students who hadnt learned vanishing yet?

What happened to my childhood?

Who can I blame for this mental image?

Vanishing is taught in year 4 so what did they do with younger students/childs?

The solution, probably, is the same as many rudimentary tasks in the Potterverse: house elf slavery.

But is this waste disposal system any more outlandish than how muggles crapped in ye olde times?

People pissed on the floor all the time at Versailles.

And chamber pots were the standard for nighttime elimination for centuries.