[HPforGrownups] Is Peeves a Ghost? was Re: Wizard to ghost?

[Beth G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 86204


dj_bagshaw (kate_bag at hotmail.com) wrote:

<<One other question though...I was rereading PS last night, and 
discovered an interesting passage about Peeves:

"He gives us all a bad name and you know, he's not really even a 
ghost" 

At this point, the speaker/ghost, who isn;t identified but whose 
description seems to fit that of Nearly Headless Nick, gets 
*interrupted* (and we all know what interruptions mean...)

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?>>


Ghosts, technically, are seen. Floating, scaring, or just kind of being; the way you know you have a ghost is if you see it. A "ghost" also refers basically anything dead.

Poltergeists, on the other hand, are very a specific type of ghost. Poltergeists like destruction, as seen in Peeves. The most common things poltergeists can do are crashing plates or other valuable things, and normally their level of mischeviousness stops there although some go farther (according to the people who believe in them). One woman convicted of murder even said that her poltergeist had killed the person, not she (as best I can remember, if anyone remembers specifics please correct me). The overall point is that poltergeists don't have to be SEEN and they cause destruction instead of just floating. 

Now - to get onto what I really wanted to say - some people think that poltergeists are caused by negative and destructive energy, especially that of adolescences. In this case, what Nearly Headless Nick said fits in perfectly.
"He's not really even a ghost," Nearly Headless Nick says and poltergeists, in this theory, AREN'T really ghosts. They're just collective negative energy not a dead person who needs to come back for whatever reason. 

So, could Peeves possibly not even be a real person, just the collective energy of all Hogwarts's students? 

Just my three knuts,
~Booksprite



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