The Gray Lady????

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "zephyr036" <epoch2 at i...> wrote:
>    Okay gang, I am going to toss this question out to see if anyone 
> can answer. I recently heard that JK based one of the Hogwarts 
ghosts 
> on the legend of the UK's "Gray Lady" ghost. I have been through 
all 
> four books, several times, and have not found any reference to 
> the "Gray Lady" or even a female ghost at Hogwarts. I am wondering, 
> however, if the "Gray Lady" is not, in fact, the house ghost for 
> Ravenclaw. I know that Gryffindor's house ghost is "Nearly Headless 
> Nick", Slytherin's is "The Bloody Baron" and Hufflepuff's (my own 
> house) is "The Fat Friar", but I have yet to find any reference to 
> the Ravenclaw ghost. Furthermore, does anyone know which faculty 
> member is the head of the house for Ravenclaw? Perhaps, Prof. 
> Flitwick??

Rowling said in an interview some time ago that the House ghost for 
Ravenclaw was the Grey Lady and Flitwick is the Head of Ravenclaw. 
The GL isn't mentioned by name in any of the books so far, but in 
SS/PS Ron and Harry are sneaking through the halls and a tall female 
ghost flits by them. That is supposed to be the Grey Lady, according 
to Rowling's interviews.

Moaning Myrtle is a female ghost:-) So there are at least two 
identified female ghosts in Hogwarts. IIRC, in SS/PS, there are about 
20 ghosts who enter the Great Hall before Harry's Sorting Ceremony...

Milz