Wankery? In a mixed school? Wouldn’t they just have sex?
You get three huge feasts a day with the amount of food they showed on those tables and you’re worried about snacks? :dubious: Frankly, it was amazing they weren’t all 20 stone by third year.
But yeah, they get to buy snacks in Hogsmeade, and I consider it unusual if they didn’t carry things out of their meals to snack on later. Besides which the kitchens are run by House Elfs, so I’m sure they can get stuff almost whenever they want.
In other British boarding school stories there is often mention of a “tuck shop”, which I think was normally on the school premises, and where the children could buy snacks. I don’t recall any mention of Hogwarts having one, though.
Abra cabanga.
I wish I could take credit for this, but I can only boast that I know where to find it:
The way the house elf system works I think they could just leave a note on a table saying what they want and the elves would find it while cleaning and be happy to leave the goods for the students to find when they return.
Not actually gone into though. It seems like most students don’t really have a clue how things got cleaned or where the food came from until Hermione gets up in arms about the house elves.
They had a map to tell them where the kitchen was, and weren’t shy about exploiting it.
A lot of important things happened in bathrooms. Secret meeting places, chambers and a good place to do some home brewing.
And with Moaning Myrtle living in the s-bend, you have got to have some nerve to use that toilet.
Not nearly enough, judging by every other mixed school.
The first year Ron and Harry got fudge in boxes from Mrs. Weasley.
yeah, there’s a few mentions of mrs. weasley sending food- chocolate eggs at easter, mincemeat pies at christmas, fudge on birthdays, etc. it seems common for treats to be exchanged as gifts. there’s various mentions of harry, ron, and hermione getting each other boxes of chocolate frogs or cauldron cakes or every flavor beans for birthdays and holidays.
and yeah, the house elves were always happy to provide them with all the food they wanted, which is how food is usually acquired for parties in the common rooms and whatnot.
I knew I couldn’t be the only one with that page bookmarked… 
I wonder this in a lot of movies, particularly action ones. When is the last time he ate or drank anything, but he has the energy to launch himself through the air and beat the crap out of that other guy. I am 99.9% sedentary and I get weak if I haven’t eaten in a few hours.
Not everyone’s metabolism is the same, and even a little conditioning can go a long way. I’m no one’s idea of fit, but I can spend a long, active day and still fight vigorously at the end of it on nothing more than a protein bar and enough water to stave off dehydration. A good friend of mine, on the other hand, used to become a danger to himself and others if he went more than about 3 waking hours without a snack. (And by “snack”, I mean “meal”. I spent years trying not to hold it against him, with limited success.)
I think “shower” is a euphemism there and so is “quidditch.”
Tell me how that works. I swear at least two of them were real honest to goodness showers.
I didn’t have it bookmarked… but I just went to Bash and searched for “wang” and hey presto! it was the first link! 
The wankery is extra, as is the buggery.
The really impressive thing is how action movie characters can do it after being seriously injured, several times, over the course of days, with no sleep or food. I had to give the second Bourne movie a lot of credit as it’s one of the only similar movies I’ve seen where a car crash where nobody had their head ripped off or anything, just a simple collision, knocks people out and confuses them and leaves them staggering around. For at least a minute.
Lord of the Rings movies. All that running, walking, marching, riding. And then the Orc battles. I’m exhausted just imagining such a life!
Now, that is another matter. Even a relatively moderate injury is usually exhausting. Once the initial adrenalin surge is over, there’s a powerful instinct to shut down and devote your energy to healing. You can stay awake if you stay active, but activity means pain, and reassessing how every bit of your body is connected to the site of the injury, and coping with the pain is exhausting in itself.
Books sometimes address this, but movies invariably underestimate it, unless it’s necessary for dramatic tension. There just isn’t time in a movie for the hero to spend several days sleeping in a cave, recuperating from a minor injury. At least the Potterverse has magical healing that can justify quick recoveries, though.
Lembas bread.
The Army of Northern Virginia was poorly fed and clothed throughout much of its existence, but they marched long distances (especially Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry”), and they could most assuredly fight.