[HPforGrownups] Someone's gonna die. Will they become a ghost?

[Pat Mahony]

No: HPFGUIDX 47112





Carolyn wrote:
>
>I was thinking this recently... it's a well known fact that
>*someone* is going to die in the next book, and probably more as
>time goes on... so what do you think the chances are of the person
>who dies becoming a ghost, and sticking around to help people?  I
>mean think about it... didn't JK Rowling say that the happiest
>people don't become ghosts, and that we'd learn more about that in
>future books?  If the person dies is Lupin or Sirius, they're
>definetly not happy.  The same probably goes for other people.
>
>This is just an idea I was thinking about... I don't know much about
>ghosts.  Can ghosts go to other places... wait, they must be able
>to, considering Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party... could
>someone become a ghost and spy on other people, like Voldemort?
>Yeah this is getting kinda crazy... I just have this idea of
>someone, maybe Sirius being killed, but still sticking around to
>help everyone else, and spying on Voldemort and stuff because he
>can't be hurt.

The ghosts that we have witnessed so far, particularly Nearly Headless Nick, 
have a high degree of choice- they are free to do whatever they please, so 
your theory about a ghost turning spy could work based on that.
Moaning Myrtle seems never to have gotten over the depression she felt at 
the time of death, ie, she is always crying etc, but she still does an 
identity, and is free to make her own choices. I don't have my book, but I 
also seem to recall Myrtle haunting Olive, until the Ministry ordered her 
not to, and to return to Hogwarts. So it appears that the MoM has the power 
to enforce this.
In conclusion, I have to say that I like your idea about a ghost spying, and 
at the moment I can't find anything to disprove it.
Roo


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