[HPforGrownups] What about Myrtle?/Peeves Not A Real Ghost?

[alicit at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47095

What about Myrtle? When you posted this question, I got an immediate flash of 
inspiration.  Myrtle is an adolescent herself, or she was, and one who has a 
significant amount of emotional turmoil.  Could her ability to effect change 
in the physical world actually be because of her psychic energy?

JOdel talks about my initial post:

"(Note, Scheeherazade's conflicting deffinition is sound insofar as it refers 

to the earlier attempts to explain the effects of poltergeist manefestation 
-- which has been documented for far longer than the modern deffinitions 
currently in use have been around. Evidently it took a while before anyone 
made the intuitive leap to postulate that these "ghosts" which interact with 
the physical world might be entities which were never actually alive.)"

*sighs* Alas, my information is based on my collection of older books.  Very 
useful for some things, but they do tend to have their theories disproven.  
Oh bother.  They do have very pretty bindings, though.

-scheherazade


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