Slytherin Dungeons

[mamadeb]

Why do people seem to believe that the dungeons are cold?

They're not only underground, they're under the Lake. They may be damp, but I would think that, far from being cold, they'd maintain the closest thing to an even temperature all year round. Water and earth are, after all, wonderful insulators.

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

It's something I've noticed in the summer time, surely. A cellar is insulated against heat and will warm up more slowly in the summer time - when my older brother was in high school, my parents finished the basement of our house so he could live there and I could have my own room. He has a very low tolerance for heat and always has. He didn't need air conditioning in the summertime.

It's somewhat different in the winter becuase, while a basement might not be heated directly, it tends to be where the furnace lives - also the hot water heater, but that would be insulated.

The dungeons would have a more even temperature, so of course, they'd be cooler in the summer.

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[hilarita.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Hogwarts seems to have no boilers or furnaces, so the dungeons would still be cold in winter, as would the whole of the rest of the castle, even with the insulating effect of the earth. Also, the dungeons seem to be dark, so there's possibly a psychological effect, making people think it's colder than it actually is.Slytherins probably think the cold is character-building, though they'd never say so.