Still wondering about ghosts

[tomatogrower88]

No: HPFGUIDX 75110

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scooting2win" 
<scooting2win at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miss Tery" 
> <miss_teriously at y...> wrote:
> > I once read an interview with JKR, one of the questions was why 
> some 
> > wizards become ghosts and some don't. She smiled and answered that 
> in 
> > book 5 the answer to that question would become clearer. Well now 
> > I've read the Order of the Phoenix and I think I was just as 
> > disappointed as Harry Potter about the explanation that Nearly 
> > Headless Nick gave, because although he is dead, he doesn't know a 
> > thing. Have you got any ideas about this subject?
> > 
> > Miss Tery
> 
> Me:) Well I know it's in there, it's frustrating but it's there, 
> most people don't choose to stay here. Nick said he was afraid to 
> die, like Voldemort, but said that he choose to stay here and not go 
> onto the afterlife...or whatever you want to call it, (not sure on 
> that one). But just like Dumbledore said about the Sorting Hat, 
> ultimately it's our choice. And the ghost that are here, choose to 
> be here. The only one I question is Moaning Myrtle, I don't think 
> she choose to stay I think she was made to stay. Lori

Now my opinion
I think Myrtle when she died was thinking about how sorry she would 
make Olive Hornby. She died in this state of mind. Myrtle just got a 
better way to get revenge on Olive. So I do think that Myrtle choose 
to stay.

Myrth