Petrified Peeves & Bloody Baron

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 188

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Randy Estes wrote:

> [Peeves]is already a non-living creature in some kind of torment 
> due to his ghostly nature.

Peeves is a poltergeist. I am not at all sure that poltergeists are a 
subset of ghosts. Maybe they are an ectoplasmic life form that never 
had a previous human life. Maybe that makes them more vulnerable in 
general than ghosts are.

> What could the Bloody Baron do to him that causes him to be afraid?

I don't know, but I can speculate on what the Bloody Baron *might* 
have the ability to do to punish ghosts: 1) upbraid them in such 
a verbally vicious manner that they were prefer physical torture 
(ghosts CAN have their feelings hurt: Nick is trying not to cry at 
being rejected by the Headless Hunt, while Myrtle was almost cheerful 
at Hermione being nice to her until Peeves started "teasing" about 
her acne. Digression: Why on earth did she have acne while alive, why 
would ANYONE at Hogwarts have acne? Madam Pomfrey can remove the 
much more serious problem of boils easily enough, so why doesn't she 
just issue all students a bar or bottle of magic anti-acne soap that 
they wash their faces with once in the morning and any pimples go 
away and don't come back.)

2) Confine them to some small and boring place, such as inside a 
bottle.

3) Hideous magical tortures that I cannot even imagine.  

For that matter, who is the Bloody Baron? Someone suggested that he 
might be Salazar Slytherin himself, but Nearly Headless Nick is Sir 
Nicholas de Mimsey-Porpington, beheaded in 1492: he is not Godric 
Gryffindor.... is he?