[HPforGrownups] Humanizing Myrtle and the nature of Ghost life (was Why is the bathroom so important in Potterverse?)

[Twileen Janeen]

No: HPFGUIDX 47546

--- shane dunphy wrote:
> Myrtle's living in the
> toilet, spending time 
> down the U-Bend in the pipe, and even allowing
> herself to be flushed out 
> into the lake (amid the detritus deposited from
> above) is certainly a 
> parrallel of this type of behaviour pattern.  Could
> it be that her death, 
> right in the midst of adolescence, has left her with
> some unresolved issues?


We often only see Myrtle as sort of comic relief, and
we gloss over how tormented she really must be. But
just imagine being killed and coming back as a ghost
as a teenager. She hasn't experienced any of the joys
of passing into adulthood (first kiss, first love
etc.), and she is stuck wafting around thinking about
that. She got to live a little by following Olive
Hornby around for several years, but that was forced
to end.
It makes me wonder if Myrtle will have a large role in
revealing the nature of an afterlife as a ghost. Is
there anyway you can stop being a ghost? NHNick showed
us that ghosts can't die again, but perhaps there is
some other way to provide rest for the dead?

-twileen


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