Ghosts and Their Powers

[Sea Change]

No: HPFGUIDX 87481

LauraW wrote:

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...what if Nick, like Percy, has yet to show why he was put in
Gryffindor.   What if his most courageous act is yet to come? 

Sea Change responds:

Maybe there are worse things to fear than death, and the event that
resulted in NHNs near-beheading was part of it?  Perhaps NHN has been
plenty brave, just not about life. 


Laura W wrote:

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What powers do ghosts have?   They can talk and remember, so they
could be used to deliver messages to locked places. 

Sea Change reponds:

This is interesting, but there's a limitation, in that the ghosts we
have seen seem to have specific haunts, so there are possibly
perfectly un-locked places certain ghosts can't get to.

  
LauraW speculates:  

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Could they carry something with them through the wall? 

Sea Change responds:

Didn't Moaning Myrtle have control of the diary in her U-Bend?  Not
sure about this.  Contrary evidence is that the reek of the deathday
party doesn't decrease as the night goes on (or at least we don't know
it does), so the ghosts aren't making off with the rotten essences
that they waft through.

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