Possible opening as Ravenclaw ghost

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Samaporn Teeravechyan <teeravec at f...> wrote:
> > At 09:05 PM 12/4/01 -0000, you wrote:
> > 
> > >  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?    
> > 
> > Secrecy Act? You've lost me there. 
> 
> The International Code of Wizarding Secrecy was the result of an International 
> Confederation of Wizards summit meeting held in 1692 (the year of the Salem 
> witch trials) in response to incrasingly gruesome persecution by fearful 
> muggles.  If you don't have access to Bagshot's "A History of Magic," you can 
> check "Fantastic Beats and Whre to Find Them," page xv.
> 
> Another Hogwarts ghost who's not from the 1600s is Nick, who died in 1492. 

  And probably the Fat Friar, come to think of it.... Maybe I'm just remembering more Elizabethan/Cavalier ghosts than there were.