Daniel Radcliffe Wants to 'Revise' That 'Harry Potter' Poop Piece of History
By Jennifer Fabiano
Pottermore, the official Harry Potter website you can go to in order to learn about Wizarding World history, also is known to tweet out unknown Potter facts from time to time. And recently, the Twitter page revealed some less than magical information about how wizards get rid of their poop.
As much as it sounds like a joke by a bored fan on Twitter, it turns out author J.K. Rowling is the founder and owner of Pottermore, so the info is actually legit.
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
During a recent interview with BuzzFeed News, Daniel Radcliffe was asked about the info that recently came to light about the wizard's private business, and the actor was just as shocked, and disgusted, as most. While the tweet never implied that the Harry Potter characters that we know and love (Harry, Ron, Hermione, etc.) practiced these methods, Radcliffe seemed to suggest his character didn't have access to modern plumbing techniques given this new information.
“I didn’t know that's what I was doing,” said Radcliffe. “I don’t like the implications." Radcliffe went on to say that he played Harry “for a long time without knowing that was a part of that character’s life.”
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe on that whole wizard poop thing: "I would like to revise that bit of the history." ??✨ pic.twitter.com/oRQklIHUhL
— AM2DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) January 31, 2019
"The idea that we would just...where we stood..I do have many questions about it, he continued. "Like, can we not just vanish it from our stomachs?”
Radcliffe will have to talk to Rowling about this, because he “would like to revise that bit of the history."
Twitter users would appreciate if Radcliffe got that piece of trivia changed. Many Harry Potter fans responded to the Pottermore tweet expressing their disgust.
jk rowling i will literally pay you to stop writing
— gensou @ 4 days till YW3!! (@kokorogensou) January 4, 2019
Are you telling me that wizards were just never like “Man just doing this openly is gross. People should do this privately. Maybe a chamberpot that auto-vanishes.”
— Matt Barbot (@BarbotRobot) January 4, 2019
We're just glad to know Radcliffe doesn't support this odd, and admittedly gross, piece of history.