Peeves Not A Real Ghost?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47053

In a message dated 23/11/2002 21:48:50 Eastern Standard Time, alicit at aol.com 
writes:
> 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.  

Me:

This has been stated before, but for the new memebers, actually, the common 
consensus in parapsychology now is that Poltergeists (though the name is 
German for "noisy" ghost") are not the spirits of dead people at all, but an 
uncontollable psychic energy field that centers around or is eminated from a 
person, usually an adolescent boy or girl. There are a lot of adolescent boys 
and girls at Hogwarts, and all are of the magical persuasion, so probably 
have more than their fair share of psychic ability to begin with.

A Poltergeist manifests telekinetically, doing things like hurling objects 
across the room, breaking things, flicking lights, etc, which is obviously a 
real nuisance to a person and their family, which is why "Peeves" is an 
excellent nickname for a Poltergeist.  HP's Peeves may be particularly 
distinct, and particularly pesky because he is the collective Poltergeist of 
all the magical students at Hogwarts.

Audra


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