Question re: Nearly Headless Nick

[nera at rconnect.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18031

> > 
> > 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.  I know it is off-topic, but I have been wondering about 
> it 
> > for a while.
> > 
> > Catherine
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>From SS/PS:
"That does look good," said the ghost in the ruff sadly,
watching Harry cut up his steak,
"Can't you --?"
    "I haven't eaten for nearly four hundred years," said the
ghost. "I don't need to, of course, but one does miss it. I don't
think I've introduced myself? Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at
your service. Resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower."

And from CoS:
"Curiously, it was Nearly Headless Nick's fate that seemed to worry 
people most. What could possibly do that to a ghost? People asked 
each other; what terrible power could harm someone who was already 
dead?" 

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It does seem to appear that it would be impossible to give Nick any 
kind of oral medication, since he has not eaten for nearly four 
hundred years.

It does *not*, however, say that he *can not* eat, only that he *has 
not* eaten. hmmmmm And they *do* have food at his Death Day Party. 

Perhaps, instead of a *potion*, Madame Pomfrey makes the potion into 
a mist or a smoke form of the same medicine which the others take. 
Maybe she just wafts it *through* him.

Perhaps, since Nick is a ghost, he is not affected like the others. 
Maybe his petrification is only a temporary state, which just wears 
off after a while.

Nick is in both CoS and GoF... so let's hope there is a way out of 
this sticky sitution. 

All of this, of course, is just more food for thought for the HPFGU.:)
By the way, Catherine,this discussion is very much On Topic. :)

Doreen, who likes Nick, but Peeves is still her favorite.




"Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?" said Ron,
who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy. "Sounds
dead depressing to me. . . ."