Who are the House Ghosts?

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 45649

A lengthy search of the archives has revealed – well a lot of 
interesting discussion about a lot of interesting things, but not the 
question about ghosts and more particularly the Bloody Baron that I 
was looking for!

Whilst there is no canonical evidence for this, I think of the Grey 
Lady as the same Grey Lady who haunts York Minster: Lady Jane Grey. 
Queen of England for 9 days in Tudor times before she was beheaded 
for treason. If my history serves me correctly, she was said to be 
academically gifted. I realise that there are differing 
interpretations of the Grey Lady, and I even found some in post 
30982. But my interpretation seems to fit with the CTWMNBN, where the 
Tudor clothed Grey Lady is afforded a higher profile than in our 
beloved books.

The Fat Friar reminds me of Friar Tuck, although this is strictly my 
interpretation, and there might be differing views around.

I imagine Nearless Headless Nick to be a totally JKR creation with a 
significance yet to be revealed, but who then is the Bloody Baron? Is 
he based on someone or will he too have a significance that we must 
still wait for.

Ali

Who thinks that Ginny could be called "Iphigenia", if her parents 
were really cruel and truly wanted to list their family in 
alphabetical order.