some thoughts about the Ghosts - Lupin at Godric's Hollow

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 26745


Neil Ward wrote:

<I like the idea that the Hogwarts ghosts are not
necessarily former 
witches and wizards, but Muggle spirits who can stray
across the 
boundaries between the two worlds, and Maria has a point,
in that the 
titles of the House ghosts do not really marry up with our
knowledge 
of the Magical world.   {...}

On the other side of the argument is the fact that the
House ghosts 
are assigned to the four Houses.  Are we to assume that the
Houses 
adopted these ghosts at some point, or were they perhaps
former 
students or teachers of Hogwarts who were sorted when they
were 
alive?   If so, did the Fat Friar leave Hogwarts as a young
wizard 
and decide to enter a Muggle friary to find his inner self
or brew 
beer for tourists?  That seems a little unlikely.>

Parker added:

<It's the Fat Friar, not Nick.  PS, UK ed., pg. 87.  'Hope
to see you 
in Hufflepuff!' said the Friar. 'My old house you know.' 
So we know 
at least one of them was there.  > 

Thanks for the comments! As Neil said, it doesn't make much
sense that the Fat Friar went to a monastery after Hogwarts
, however, Parker pointed that he said so in the book, so i
don't know what to think. The baron doesn't seem like a
wizard in life either, however, the most doubtful one was
the Friar, and he is proven to be a wizard in life. Well, i
thought i had an interesting point... but i see i didn't :)

On another topic, i hear people discussing about Godric's
Hollow and Lupin being there, the place being destroyed,
etc. I have a question for the experts: does it say
somewhere that Godric's Hollow is a house, like the Burrow,
the home of the Potters? Or could it be a bigger place, not
a town,since we know that Hogsmeade is the only
all-wizarding town in England, but with more houses than
that where the Potters lived?

Maria

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