[HPforGrownups] The Bloody Baron

[Jennye & Michael Woolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 21283

OK, I checked the archives and couldn't find a single discussion on this, so
I'm wondering...

Why is Peeves (and all the other ghosts, so it seems) afraid of the Bloody
Baron? Especially in SS/PS, he is used as a threat to keep Peeves in line
(i.e. when Percy is trying to get the first years back to Gryffindor Tower
he threatens Peeves with the BB. And when Harry et al runs into him while
they are headed for the AStronomy Tower under the invisibility cloak, and
Peeves senses someone, Harry disguises his voice and pretends to be the BB.
Filch often threatens to report Peeves to the Bloody Baron) Also, in Nearly
Headless Nick's conversation with the newly sorted Harry (SS/PS), Harry asks
what the silvery blood is from on the BB, and Nick responds that he's never
asked him.

Is this important for future books? Will it come up again? Could the blood
possibly be unicorn blood? Do I just have waaaaaaaaaay too much time on my
hands?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Jennye


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