I hope this isn't a spoiler:

[Joe Bento]

I'm just one chapter shy of finishing the book.  I needed a well 
deserved breather.  I don't think there is the slightest detail that 
JKR hasn't fully examined.  I'm nearly speechless at this point.

A children's book?  Wow!  Stephen King couldn't even full off a 
shocker like this!

Absolutely brilliant, Jo!

Joe




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> HBP did *not* reveal why Peeves fears and obeys the Bloody Baron.
> 
> I can make up many exciting stories to explain it, but fear that JKR
> never thought it out and would answer, on the fly, that the Baron is 
a
> Very Good Bluffer.