[HPforGrownups] Re: A Bloody Baron Question

[Ealasaid A. Haas]

No: HPFGUIDX 30517

psammeaddd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Whirdy at a... wrote:

> > Why is Peeves (and what is his status) terrified of the Bloody Baron?
> >
> Dunno - maybe he was responsible for the Bloody Baron's demise!

My guess is that the Baron is nasty enough to harm Peeves if Peeves
annoys him.  It would make sense for ghosts to be able to physically
affect one another. 

> Also, as Peeves is a poltergeist, maybe he's different from the
> others. I'm pretty sure a poltergeist is just another kind of ghost
> (I think it translates to "noisy ghost"), but is it supposed to be a
> spirit that never was human, or do human troublemakers turn into
> poltergeists when they die?

My understanding from my own family's lore is that poltergeists don't
necessarily have the same amount of personality as ghosts.  They may
have habits and names, but they lack that certain person-ness, for lack
of a better word, that ghosts have.  You don't get the sense necessarily
that they used to be a living person.  They're more like collections of
annoying habits.

This makes sense within the HP canon, as Sir Nicholas seems to have an
unlife of sorts - trying to get into the headless hunt, hanging out with
the other ghosts, etc - but Peeves is just a nuisance.  You could have a
conversation with Sir Nick, but not with Peeves.

Ealasaid
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