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Why a fortress? And why at Harry's old boarding house location?

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Wizard Sibelis:
realistically, the fire would have collapsed the basement but the subbasement was another good ten feet of concrete deeper. No reasoning for a fire to burn that far down really, it wouldn't have the air to breath down there either. The idea we're supposed to accept it's loss is ludicrous when you consider the bomb shelter that is Harry's laboratory. Then marcone moves in upstairs and adds layers upon layers of stone to it? You know why stone is a thing right, for castles? It doesn't burn lol!
Nobody looks doyalist anymore or what lol?
Also he had an actual hatch to his basement, not just a cover for it, it's not like the undertown mysteriously stopped being a thing after that the Chicago fire lol, It became the thing!
Bomb shelters tend to not overheat and break... no real wreckage down below.

morriswalters:
Water flows downhill and the basement would have been a lake, and concrete gets weak if it gets hot enough.  The house would have collapsed into the basement. All in all, in the real world it would be gone.  Of course this isn't the real world.  But the table and the model would have been destroyed when the wreckers took out the debris. The pieces would have ended up in a landfill.  LC is gone unless it was rescued by a time traveler when the house got lit off, or someone crossed over from faerie.

Kindler:
Come to think of it, wouldn't burning Little Chicago have released all the stored up energy inside? Wouldn't that be equivalent to detonating several kilotons of TNT? I mean, Vittorio's little gauntlet was set on fire, and that exploded violently. The description of Little Chicago's energy reservoir leads me to believe it's exponentially larger and more potent. Hm.

Mostly, I think LC had to go for plot reasons; it was simultaneously important for Harry to do a few things, but arguably too powerful to keep around. With enough practice, Harry wouldn't need to go running around every chapter to hunt down clues. It's similar to why he can't use computers or cell phones (plot-wise, not in-universe).

Cozarkian:

--- Quote from: Kindler on August 30, 2018, 04:43:29 PM ---Come to think of it, wouldn't burning Little Chicago have released all the stored up energy inside? Wouldn't that be equivalent to detonating several kilotons of TNT? I mean, Vittorio's little gauntlet was set on fire, and that exploded violently. The description of Little Chicago's energy reservoir leads me to believe it's exponentially larger and more potent. Hm.

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Water (from fire sprinklers or hydrant) would have grounded out any stored energy.

Wizard Sibelis:

--- Quote from: Cozarkian on September 04, 2018, 02:09:12 PM ---Water (from fire sprinklers or hydrant) would have grounded out any stored energy.

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It's an underground lab, it might turn into a lake, but it would never be running water over Lab, part of the beauty of a trap door and narrow entry way. it funnels, and LC wasn't directly underneath it.

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