[HPforGrownups] 20 ghosts

[Silver Stag]

No: HPFGUIDX 58911

Kelly Grosskreutz
> Going on a side tangent from this.  We know that Peeves has the ability to
affect matter (throwing things, etc), but we chalk that up to him being a
poltergeist.  But what about Moaning Myrtle?  She is a ghost, but yet she
has the ability to displace water when she dives into her toilet.  She is
known for causing flood after flood in that bathroom.  Binns, if I'm
recalling it correctly, can write on the chalkboard with chalk.  So what, in
this setting, sets a ghost apart from a poltergeist?
Now me silver stag:
I don't remember any evidence of Binns being able to write on the
blackboard.  He walks through it to get into the classroom.  Peeves can
write on the board, though.
Ch. 9 of SS
    Professor McGonagall pointed them into a classroom that was empty except
for Peeves, who was busy writing rude words on the blackboard.

    "Out, Peeves!" she barked. Peeves threw the chalk into a bin, which
clanged loudly, and he swooped out cursing. Professor McGonagall slammed the
door behind him and turned to face the two boys.

Silver stag, more fascinated by this subject than any that have been
proposed in a while.