[HPforGrownups] Re: Ghosts

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 74539

Danger Mouse wrote:
 > Sommers: I think that was in there just because it is funny.
 > A lot of the humor in the books comes from turning the magical
 > into the mundane.  The idea that if you are being haunted you
 > can go to court and get an injunction against the ghost is
 > funny, just like the idea of a government department
 > regulating the thickness of cauldron bottoms.  I don't think
 > there's any more to it than that.
 >
 > Dan: Doesn't Filch complain that Dumbledore hasn't forced
 > Peeves out of Hogwarts?

Yes.

 > If so, there's gotta be such a thing
 > as HP!exorcism

Possibly, but not necessarily.  I think if Dumbledore simply told 
Peeves to leave, he would.  In Myrtle's case, I did not get the 
impression that any magic was used to get her to stop haunting; 
she was just ordered to.