The Ghostly Potters

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 13634

JKR has promised that she will reveal why some people become ghosts and
others don't.  What if Harry's parents are ghosts who are tied to Godric's
Hollow?  What if some time in the next 3 books he actually visits his old
home (or what's left of it) and discovers his parents waiting there.  He's
already seen them in the Mirror of Erised, and they even SPOKE to him and
helped him fight off Voldemort in GoF, although they weren't permanent
ghosts.

I've always found it strange that Harry has a remarkable lack of
investigative curiosity concerning the death of his parents.  He's
apparently never done any research into old news items, or talked much to
older people about his parents; he was apparently even unaware of HOW they
had been killed until Moody's first DADA lesson for 4th-Years when the Avada
Kedavra curse was demonstrated.

Maybe the reason is that Rowling is saving that discovery until some time in
the future when
Harry must go and talk to them, discover just what it was they did for a
living, and why Voldemort came to kill James and Harry.  What if the Potters
can't be released from their place of death until Harry kills Voldemort --
imagine him knowing that if he destroys Lord V, his parents will disappear
as well.

Anyway, it just struck me that JKR must have some serious reason why the
ghosts of dead people do, or do not, linger.

What do the ghosts of Nearly Headless Nick, The Fat Friar, The Bloody Baron,
and Myrtle have in common?  Why are they at Hogwarts?  Someone already
mentioned that the ghosts at Nick's Deathday Party obviously can move around
the country, since they are not all permanent residents of the school.

SML

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"Very well," said Madame Maxime, bowing
slightly. "Will you please inform zis 'Agrid
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     --Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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