[HPforGrownups] Re: Ghosts

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No: HPFGUIDX 70760

In a message dated 7/16/03 12:12:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rachrobins at hotmail.com writes:


> Snape in PS boasts that he 
> can teach the students how to put a stopper in death - is he 
> referring to becoming a ghost?  


I always thought that he was talking more along the lines of antidotes and 
maladies that would possibly kill you if you didn't know how to prevent them.

> 
> Unfortunaltey all of my plausible theories about wizards becoming 
> Ghosts through potions, charms and even the Veil in the Department of 
> Mysteries are thwarted by Moaning Myrtle. I think I need to read CoS 
> again, but her description is pretty much along the lines of "I saw 
> two great big eyes and then I died" she then goes on to explain how 
> she waited in the toilet for someone to find her.  This completley 
> thwarts my notion that a fully trained wizard is able to make 
> themselves become a ghost by some actual process or action. 
> 

When Harry asks Nick if Sirius will come back, Nick replys, "I was afraid of 
death" I take that more to mean that even before it happened, it was not 
something that Nick subconsciously thought he could handle . Sirius on the other 
hand has always been much more daring and looking towards what was next. He 
would not have been afraid or nervous about seeing what comes next. It might be a 
case of what each person subconsciously views death as and what that means 
more than a matter of "well now that you're dead, would you like what's behind 
curtain number 1? or curtain number 2?"  Nick has now had quite a bit of time to 
think about his death, what happened and what that now means for the rest of 
eternity-I'm sure he understands much more thoroughly now what caused what and 
why he is where he is. I doubt he realized it at the time. 

Then again, who knows?

~colleen 




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