OOTP: thoughts on why we will learn more about ghosts

Kia kiatrier at yahoo.com
Fri May 2 13:13:01 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 56781

>>>>I have been wondering about why in OOTP we will learn 
more about ghosts, why some people become ghosts and 
others don't. I was also intrigued by the implication that unhappy 
people come back as ghosts, or, like Myrtle, die with a thought 
that stops them from departing for the afterlife. This has me 
thinking: Will the mystery person who dies in OOTP come back 
as a ghost? If so, what role will that person's unhappiness/dying 
thought have in bringing him/her back? <<<<<<<<<<


Rowling herself answered the question of : "What makes some 
witches/wizards become ghosts after they die and some not? "

With: "You don't really find that out until Book VII, but I can say
that the happiest people do not become ghosts. As you might 
guess, 
Moaning Myrtle! "

So I don't think we will learn more about them in OotP. I always 
thought that this might fit in the Stoned!Christian Symbolism! 
Ressurection!Harry scenario, because it would allow her to 
make death final, while not making it final at all. 

I don't think that she would promise us a deeper look into how to 
become a ghost without actually someone becoming a ghost in 
Book VII - and from whose point of view we would know best how 
and why you become a ghost? Harry's. 

Well those are my two cents of speculation anyway.


 Kia






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