Myrtle(WAS Re: Someone's gonna die. Will they become a ghost?)

[The Real Makarni]

No: HPFGUIDX 47119

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dangermousehq at h... wrote:
> Legally Blonde wrote:
> "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."
> 
> I don't think this happened, actually. It'd be hilarious--hell, I'd 
haunt Oliver--but I don't think it happened. Maybe it was fanfiction. 
That certainly tends to muddle the canon for me. 

Actually, Legally Blonde didn't write that, I (Roo) did. And Myrtle 
*did* haunt Olive Hornby (did you think I meant Oliver, by any 
chance?). Anyway, Myrtle says on pg 404 of GoF, when Harry is 
listening to the egg, : "And then she (Olive Hornby) saw my body. 
. .  ooooh, she didn't forget it until her dying day, I made sure of 
that. . . followed her around and reminded her, I did, I remember 
at her brother's wedding. . . - and then, of course, she went to the 
Ministry of Magic to stop me stalking her, so I had to come back 
here and live in my toilet."
>From this, I think it is safe to assume that the MoM was 
responsible for Myrtle's "posting" at Hogwarts, so they must have 
a way too enforce it as well. This begins raise certain questions 
that I can't be bothered addressing at the moment.
See ya
Roo