Question re: Nearly Headless Nick

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 17955

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> I have searched the archives for an answer to this, and can't find 
> one, but I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned before, so 
> apologies if I've just missed it.
> 
> In CoS, is Nearly Headless Nick revived?  I can't see how he could 
> be, because he wouldn't be able to take the mandrake potion.  I've 
> also realised that I can't find a reference to him in any either 
PoA 
> or GoF.  Does this mean that he is still petrified?
> 
> Has JKR deliberately ignored solving this particular problem, as 
she 
> doesn't know how to?  In which case, why didn't she not have him 
see 
> the Basilisk in the first place?  He could have been facing Justin 
> Fitch-Fletchley and not the Basilisk, and JFF would still be 
> petrified and not dead.
> 
> Or is it just a Flint?
> 
> If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be 
> grateful.  I know it is off-topic, but I have been wondering about 
it 
> for a while.
> 
> Catherine

I have just had another look, and realised that Nearly Headless Nick 
is at the welcome feast in GoF.  That makes me think even more that 
it is a flint.
C.