Does anyone have a theory about Peeves?

[jodel at aol.com]

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Revanto says;

<< I'm guessing that's what Peeves is too. I think that Peeves was was killed 
in such a way that he somehow went mad before he died EG he could have been 
tortured and the pain was too much before he died. That could explain his 
craziness and childish behaviour. >>

There's a fanfiction writer over on ff.net who writes under the pen name of 
Ozma and has produced a series of tales told in first-person narriative by 
none other than Argus Filtch. The lady has done her homework regardig the 
differences between ghosts and poltergeists. 

Unlike a ghost, it seems that a poltergeist is not the revenant of anything 
that was ever actually alive. Instead, it is a manifestation of psychic 
energy in the physical realm, and virtually always occurs in the presence of 
disturbed adolescents, strong emotions or some other form of psychic 
disturbance. 

Well duh! WHAT has Hogwarts castle been harboring for a thousand years but a 
horde of psychicly *active* adolescents with all their raging hormones, petty 
squabbles and teenage angst? It's been soaking up all of these vibes for 
centuries. Of COURSE it manifested a poltergeist. I'm surprised it doesn't 
have half a dozen. And if Dumbledore ever honored Filtch's demands that 
Peeves be exorcised, it would probably have manifested another by the end of 
the term.

In any case, she certainly convinced me.

-JOdel