[HPforGrownups] Re: Peeves' function in the story- Riddles' death

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"Flying Ford Anglia" wrote:
>> So, how about it: is Peeves Dumbledore's inner teenager let loose
on
>> the unsuspecting students?

Holey_Moley2:
>I searched for a post such as this & was unable to find one that has
>mentioned what Nearly Headless Nick said in chapter seven of the first
>book - that is...
>"My dear Friar, haven't we given Peeves all the chances he deserves?
>He gives us all a bad name and you know, he's not really even a ghost
>-- I say, what are you all doing here?"

>If "he's not really even a ghost", then your thoughts become
>intriguing Anglia.


I say:

For as much as I like the idea of a teenage, prankish Dumbledore loose in
the school I have to tell you that what Nick says refers to Peeves being a
poltergeist and poltergeists are not 'proper' ghosts, more like psychic
entities whose sole manifestation is the moving of objects and causation of
havoc, they don't usually have a form or shape like the average ghost.
OOps, someone (Jay) already answered to this I'm sorry for the repetition!



People seems to be overlooking what Mrs Bonsai (what a cute name!) has
already pointed out about Tom Riddle's murder of his muggle family. They
were not killed with an AK curse but by the Basilisk and we can be sure of
that because they are described " Lying there with their eyes wide open!
Cold as ice!" and "each of the Riddle had a look of terror upon his or her
face", we should be able to recognize the effect of petrification as we've
seen a lot of that in CoS: Mrs Norris is said to be "stiff as a board, her
eyes wide and staring" and on the same line are the words used to describe
Hermione and the others. So, in any discussion of the Restriction of
Underage Sorcery these murders must not be taken into account as I'm not
sure at all that going about with your pet basilisk qualifies as 'sorcery'.
 If anyone is left wondering how one could possibly walk the streets with such a 'cumbersone' pet on the lead without being noticed ( remember that no one had noticed the pale, black haired teen outsibe the Riddle house besides Frank), turn to Hermione who figured it out a long time ago; 'pipes' she wrote! This may lead, however, to a couple of questions: how big are Hogwarts' pipes if the Basilisk which is " thick as an oak trunk" (CoS ch. 17) used them? and is the WW waterworks connected to the muggle one?

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