The Bloody Baron's identity

[annemehr <annemehr@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51533

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kahlanvv <Marianne_1976 at h...>" 
<Marianne_1976 at h...> wrote:
> I think this is a great insight, he must be a relative of Salazar 
> and Riddle both. One thing I would like to add is this query: has 
> anyone thought about the fact that he (the bloody baron) is covered 
> in silver blood, and Voldemort keeps himself alive by eating the 
> (silver) blood of a unicorm - that this act leaves him in a pathetic 
> sort of half-life. Does anyone else think that the bloody baron's 
> death has something to do with a unicorn - it always says the other 
> ghosts are scared of him and when Harry is in the forest the Centaur 
> remarks that anyone who would slay a unicorn is evil... Any 
> thoughts??
> 
> "Marianne_1976"

I had wondered about this, too, and looked into the books for any 
other hints.  I ran into a dead end in PS/SS, ch. 7, where the 
first-years are wainting in a chamber off the entrance hall for 
Professor McGonnagall to take them into the Great Hall:

"About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall.  
Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room..."

And a few paragraphs later, in the Great Hall,

"Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty 
silver."

So the ghosts don't seem to have any particular color at all, except 
for pearly or silvery, and that would have to apply to the blood as 
well, even if it was human (formerly red) blood.  It's still 
interesting that the blood *is* described as silvery, when later on 
unicorn blood is described the same way, and it makes me as suspicious 
as it does you, but I think canon makes it impossible for us to draw 
any conclusions -- so far!

Annemehr