[HPforGrownups] Re: Poltergeists

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 30699

ladjables at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>  Margaret Dean wrote:
> > I had an off-the-wall idea:  what if a poltergeist is what
> > happens when a house-elf dies?
>
> Not to nitpick, but wasn't Peeves described as a little MAN?  Or am
> I reading you wrong regarding your assumption that poltergeists are
> exclusively house-elves?

I wouldn't take the word "man" too literally.  We first see
Peeves from (all together now) Harry's Point Of View, and he's
hardly likely to describe him (even to himself) as a "small male
humanoid."  'S got two arms, two legs, one head, bow tie, it's a
little man.  :)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>