[HPforGrownups] Peeves

[LD]

No: HPFGUIDX 39140

David wrote:

>He's obviously an important character, isn't he?  He's Dumbledore's 
>foil.  He has the same sense of humour and dress sense as Dumbledore, 
>only less generous.  He is Dumbledore's mischievous impulses 
>untempered by his wisdom and sense of responsibility.

**snip**

>he is the recoil from Dumbledore's acts of goodness, 
>preserving a sort of moral law of conservation of momentum.  A 
>catharsis for the strain of being unrelentingly good.
>
>While Snape holds his nastiness close, and Sirius switches in and out 
>of his, and Lupin slides his in gently like quinine in lemonade, 
>Dumbledore holds his in an eccentric orbit, moving through space 
>apparently of its own volition, yet ultimately bound to his 
>gravitational pull.


The way that I'm interpreting what you've said there is that Dumbledore
and Peeves are one and the same... Yeah, I know I'm crazy but its still
an interesting idea, right?

Right?

I see it as Peeves being a kind of physical manifestation of
Dumbledore's inner child or something, the Dumbledore that wants to play
tricks, sing rude songs and cause playful mayhem all over the shop. It
fits in with what our muggle science has to say about poltergeists too:
that they're caused by the victim's stress levels or hyperactivity or
something, I'm too lazy to go find a proper quote right now. Maybe
that's why Peeves isn't thought of as a true ghost by the others,
because he's not in fact dead - he's very much alive and well!

Hopefully this hasn't been said before, and I'm not just retreading old
ground :)

-LD