[HPforGrownups] Re: Peeves' function in the story

[Gail Bohacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 44970



"Flying Ford Anglia" wrote:

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

Rita Then Said:

>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!

And Me:

The noticeable differences that I see between Peeves and other ghosts are 
that 1) Peeves has some color to him while the other ghosts are 
transparent/translucent and 2) Peeves can manipulate items while other it 
seems that other ghosts can not (Nearly Headless Nick has to ask Peeves to 
smash the cabinet to cause the distraction in CoS...NHN couldn't do it 
himself)

When I think about Peeves, I keep remembering about what Fleur said at the 
Yule Ball...something to the effect that if Beauxbaton had a poltergeist, it 
would be removed, "just like that".  And what Filch said in GoF, when he 
thought that Peeves had stolen the champion's egg...(I'm so sorry I don't 
have any books to quote from!) that now Dumbledore would have to listen to 
him and throw Peeves out. Somehow, this makes me think that Peeves is 
something more than just psychic energy (at least in JKR's books).

He's a big headache, to students and faculty alike...but for some reason I 
think Dumbledore is intentionally keeping him around.

-Gail B.

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