Is Peeves a Ghost? was Re: Wizard to ghost?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 86190

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dj_bagshaw" <kate_bag at h...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> So, ny question is, why is Peeves not really even a ghost?  Is this 
> important, or was the speaker merely saying that Peeves didn't 
*act* 
> like a proper ghost?  Is the distinction between ghost and 
> poltergiest (which I belive Peeves is mentioned as) so great that 
he 
> isn't considered a ghost?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> ~Kate

Hickengruendler:

Peeves is a poltergeist, not a ghost. A poltergeist never lived. I am 
sure there are people here, who can explain better what exactly a 
poltergeist is and why it "exists" (in fantasy world, of course). But 
a poltergeist was never a living person, it's more sort of a 
creature. That's why Peeves can touch all these things, while the 
ghosts just glide through it.

Hickengruendler