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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