[HPforGrownups] Peeves Not A Real Ghost?
alicit at aol.com
alicit at aol.com
Sun Nov 24 02:35:29 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 47050
Well, from my limited knowledge of ghosts: I think that Nick here is
referring to Peeves being a poltergeist instead of a ghost. However, Peeves
isn't the classical sort of poltergeist, if he was, Nick would be right about
him not being a ghost, but there doesn't seem to be a distinction between the
two in the Potterverse.
Let me explain *clears throat* A ghost is the spirit of someone who has died
that haunts either the place they died, where they are buried (or not...) or
another place that had some importance to them in life. They are usually not
aware of people/objects that are in the present world, although they are
aware of objects that were in their world. (i.e. they may go to a bed that
was in the house when they lived there, if there is currently a bed there,
they may seem to interact with it) Sometimes ghosts interact with people,
usually it is when the people are doing something that is similar to their
life/death experiences. In summary: ghosts-not aware of surroundings, aware
of past
Poltergeists are souls that haunt the place where they died/are buried. They
do not usually have an identity (Peeves is unusual in this) that is brought
over from their real life. Unless Peeves has only been named after his
death, he doesn't seem to have much of a history or any reason for being
where he is. Poltergeists are famous for disrupting objects in the places
they haunt. They do this presumably because the new objects disrupt their
reality, which is stuck on how the room was before they died. They do not
have form (another way in which Peeves is odd) and do not communicate, except
for the few who write on walls and such. Summary: Poltergeists-not aware of
past, aware of surroundings.
This is perhaps not what was meant in the book, but it may be the basis.
After all, neither the resident ghosts nor Peeves seem to fit our normal
requisites for what makes a ghost.
-Scheherazade
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