Moaning Myrtle

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 51405

As someone has said, there are some characters who are so revolting that 
when you're reading any scene when they appear, you want to hurry up and get 
past them. In my opinion, Moaning Myrtle belongs at the head of the list 
(right above Rita Skeeter).

Most of the Hogwarts ghosts seem reasonably well-adjusted, like Professor 
Binns or Nearly Headless Nick.  Even the Bloody Baron is just an 
old-fashioned "classic" ghost. I don't think it's the method of death that 
makes the difference, since Nearly Headless Nick presumably had a highly 
traumatic death experience -- probably much worse than Moaning Myrtle, who 
never knew what hit her.

Moaning Myrtle is *icky,* always talking about toilets and spying on people 
taking baths.  And she's randomly spiteful (like Peeves), always glad when 
something bad happens to someone (like Hermione and the Polyjuice Potion 
fiasco.) Furthermore, by her own word she used to be even nastier until the 
Ministry of Magic suppressed her ("stalking" Olive Hornsby, even at her 
brother's wedding).


Janet Anderson


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An ordinary person says, "You have a face that would stop a clock." A 
diplomat says, "When I look at you, time stands still."



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