Hogwarts Ghosts

[Amy Greil]

No: HPFGUIDX 87049

First post!

One of the questions I have about the house ghosts is why, if they are former Hogwart's Students, do at least 3 of them have a title or position presumably conferred by the muggle world?  NHN is a knight, BB is a baron, FF is a monk and the Grey Lady could be simply a nickname or she is, in fact, "Lady So and So."  I have a hard time imagining a Hogwarts-trained wizard entering a Muggle monastary!  

Also, why are they haunting Hogwarts?  Myrtle haunts the girl's room because she died there (and was stopped from stalking Iris Hornsby) but did the other ghosts die there?  Were they, like Prof. Binns, once teachers there?

Or is this another case of thinking too deeply about something JKR just dashed off?

---Amy


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