[HPforGrownups] feminist ghosts?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 86881


liz wrote:
> on 10/12/03 1:57 pm, jwcpgh at jwcpgh at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>  > I was chatting with a listee offlist and she observed that there are
>  > no female house ghosts in canon.
> 
> The Ravenclaw ghost is The Grey Lady. I'm assuming she's female until canon
> states otherwise!
> 
> Liz
> 

Somehow the mental image of the Grey Lady being a cross-dressing man is 
now stuck in my head.  Now there's a ghost with issues.

Being as we have not seen a lot of ghosts yet in the books and all of 
them at Hoggwart's, its impossible to say how many male or female ghosts 
there are in canon as we are seeing only a small percentage of the 
total. Its like saying there are more male wizards then female based on 
what few 'on camera' people we hear about in the books.  There are TONS 
of unnamed ones we never hear about, after all.  JKR can't include 
everyone in the books or it would be impossible to keep up with them 
all.  I already have trouble keeping track of all the characters in Anne 
McCaffrey books as she has the habit of flinging out name after name, 
much less having to keep track of every person in JKR's books..

Jazmyn