Possible opening as Ravenclaw ghost - casting filk

[Heather Moore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., sesyredchoos at a... wrote:
> Martin writes: Popular beliefs claim that ghosts are ghosts because they have 
> unsettled
> business, so here's my theory:
> 
> Ok, maybe it's just my extremely skeptical side doing the writing here, but I 
> can't help but wonder if maybe having the Grey Lady in the Transfiguration 
> classroom wasn't simply a prop.  Maybe there isn't any inherent or alterior 
> motive to why she was there.  It was cool to spot her and it served as a good 
> whisper to those who were watching the movie with me, "Hey!  Did you see 
> that?  That's the Grey Lady!"  They probably just added her to, yet again, 
> show off their CGI effects, or whatever it's called, or merely to heighten 
> the Hogwarts feeling that, among mortals, roam  ghosts.  But it would be fun 
> if there was more to it than just that!  Your theories could very well be 
> true...we'll have to wait and see...


 The simplest canon explanation would be that the Grey Lady has been a friend of Minerva's since Minerva's school days and likes to hang out with her and help her grade papers now that Minerva is a schoolteacher.  I suspect that, like Binns, the Grey Lady had been a Hogwarts teacher in her day. From her dress, she appears to have lived in the mid to late 1600s. 

Hrm.. in fact, just about all of the Hogwarts ghosts except for Myrtle seem to be roughly from the mid to late 1600s. I wonder if most of them died during the witch/wizard persecutions which led to the Secrecy Act. And was there not a Goblin Rebellion around that time, too?