A really disgusting fact has been revealed about Hogwarts and fans are horrified

By Press Association

January 5 2019, 2:01pm

(Ian Nicholson/PA)

If your school had particularly disgusting bathrooms, think yourself lucky – at least you had toilets.

That was not a luxury afforded to the young students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a decent portion of its history.

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

Thanks to a tweet from Pottermore, the digital presence of JK Rowling’s wizarding world, we now know – whether we want to or not – that before Muggle plumbing was adopted “witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence”.

Fans of the Harry Potter books immediately had questions.

Vanishing is taught in year 4 so what did they do with younger students/childs? 🤔
— Felice 💙 (@RiceChii) January 4, 2019

Omg that no underage magic. Being 16 like “mom, I pooped again come clean me up” I just CANT.
— Jenifer 🔮🎀 (@xsupernova_girl) January 4, 2019

Did they aguamenti their butts after?
Also if vanished objects go into nonbeing which is, to say, everything…
— 💗Mimi💗PINK CLASS💗 (@MimiChama) January 4, 2019

And people were quick to point out that there were plenty of solutions available before plumbing was invented.

I'm not sure which makes me angrier: that no Wizard had thought up a basic outhouse before the eighteenth century, or that I am currently thinking about wizard defecation habits in the pre-Victorian era.
— Choose Your Own Username Adventure (@thomdunn) January 4, 2019

Houses without plumbing had chamberpots.
— Matt Barbot (@BarbotRobot) January 4, 2019

Some people straight up refused to accept it.

I refuse to accept this as canon. Medieval castles had toilets. It was a hole in the wall with a piece of wood over it with a hole cut in it. The waste would fall down into a room that a servant would shovel out. I 100% believe Hogwarts had bathrooms and this is what they had.
— Mychal Sanders 💙 (@MyaWritesThings) January 4, 2019