Titled characters (WAS Voldemort's "lordship")

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86381

"Kathryn Cawte" wrote:

> Bloody Baron strikes me as a nickname, similar to Nearly-Headless
Nick, so
> he probably didn't choose it himself - thus he would have had no say in
> whether he was the Bloody Baron or the Bloody Marquis or whatever, I
suspect
> is was chosen by whoever first used it because it sounds good and is
> reasonably accurate i.e. he is a Baron, but that doesn't mean he's not
> anything else as well. <snip>
> 
>I wonder if he even
> *likes* the title - after all everyone, even people like the
Gryffindors who
> supposedly like Sir Nicholas, refer to him as Nearly-Headless Nick,
and he's
> made it very clear he hates the title. If he does then I suspect NHN
would
> let it go unchallenged just because it annoys him (assuming the ghosts
> mirror their House's feelings, for all I know they could be bosom
buddies

Carol:
Actually the Bloody Baron never speaks but Nearly Headless Nick treats
him with great respect and points out that he's the one in Hogwarts
who can control Peeves. When someone (Seamus, maybe?) asks how the
Baron became all bloody, Nick says delicately, "I've never asked." The
ghosts seem to get along quite well together. The Fat Friar even asks
for a little compassion or tolerance for Peeves, but he's overruled
because Peeves isn't a "proper ghost." But I think the schools would
benefit from observing the unity of the ghosts, who I suppose have put
House rivalry behind them or maybe represent Hogwarts as it was before
Slytherin left the premises. See the Sorting Hat's new song in OoP.

> 
> *Do* the books say what he looks like btw? I asked earlier in the
hopes of
> dating him and don't think I got an answer.
>
Hm. You want to date someone who's all silvery and covered with silver
blood, sends an icy shiver through you when he touches you, and can
float or glide through the air and walk through walls and closed
doors? That's as specific as I can get, I'm afraid, except that IIRC
he's scarier looking than the other ghosts. Looking in the Sorting
Ceremony chapter of SS/PS, where he's introduced for the first time.
Sorry I don't have a page reference handy.

Carol, who prefers to date living men