Nearly Headless Nick in CoS

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 21062

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> At 09:51 AM 6/16/01 -0700, Kelly the Yarn Junkie wrote:
> >Okay, this has been driving me batty since I first read the book:  
How
> >was Nearly Headless Nick revived after petrification?  He's a 
ghost, so
> >he couldn't actually ingest a potion and a topical solution would 
flow
> >right through him.
> 
> In _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_, when Willy Wonka must
> administer a "potion" to a disembodied, ghost-like entity, he does 
it
> using a pesticide spray.  Perhaps a similar "spraying" was what
> was done to Nick.  (And perhaps this is how Quirrell would have
> administered the Elixir of Life to V.)
> 
> 
> 
>                          -- Dave

I was thinking Nearly Headless Nick, being already dead, probably 
ceased to be petrified once the Basilisk was dead -- rather like not-
dead victims of a vampire go back to being plain human. 

The supernatural source of their trauma is no longer there, so 
neither is the trauma.

Indigo