Peeves' function in the story

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 5504

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> Why doesn't Dumbledore get rid of him?  Madame Maxime (or perhaps it 
> was Fleur) indicated that he wouldn't have been allowed at 
> Beauxbatons, so it must be possible to banish him if D had wanted to 
> do so. 

	It was Fleur, at the Yule ball, GoF ch. 23. 

Peeves engages in a lot of petty vandalism and outrageous rudeness 
(burlesquing Christmas carols, teasing Lupin). He is JKR's way of  
making it ok to laugh at pranks which would be rather troubling if they 
were done by the students. IMHO
Pippin