Poltergeists (was: who's going to die; Weatherby

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lyorkus at y... wrote:
> 
> > Peeves is definitely the ghost of a human.  A poltergeist ("geist"
> > is the German word for "spirit" or "ghost")
> 
> As in Zeistgeist, the spirit of the era, as in saying that 1848 and 
> 1968 shared a Zeitgeist of rebellion.

But neither year matched the sublime counter-rebellion of 1989 ("89" 
being, as Vaclav Havel noted, "68" upside-down.)

  - the counter-revolutionary CMC