Peeves' function in the story

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 5507

--- 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 seems to me that Peeves antics fit in well with Dumbledores 
attitudes, in that 

(1) Dumbly clearly has a somewhat childish and wacky sense of humor, 
so he probably finds Peeves amusing, and

(2) Dumbly clearly believes that one important lesson that the 
students must learn is how to deal with lifes problems on their own.  
So he allows nasty, unfair teachers like Snape so that the kids can 
learn to deal with the unfairness of life (JKR has said as much about 
Snape IIRC), and Peeves teaches them to deal with lifes little 
annoyances.

-- Joywitch