Who Will Return As Ghosts?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 83064

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
> What do you think? Who would stay as a ghost-- and why.
> 
> Happy speculating!


My best guess would be Neville Longbottom. As dedicated as he is to 
his mother and father, and as brave as he has been getting (both as 
witnessed in OotP) I can see him getting himself good and killed by 
the DE's and then refusing to 'cross over' so him mom and dad won't 
lose him. Whether or not they really have him right now is a debate 
for another place and time. My copy of OotP is out on loan, but the 
way I read the "Christmas on the Closed Ward" chapter was that 
Neville's gran paid very little attention to poor Alice and Frank, or 
at least a very different kind of attention than Neville gave them. I 
can't see Neville seemingly abandoning them them, leaving them with 
only Gran and Trevor and Great Uncle Algie for company. 

Also I can almost see Dumbledore pulling an Obi-Wan Kenobi and 
sacrificing himself to the cause, and then sticking around to help 
Harry with the fulfilment of the prophecy, as Harry and the rest of 
the WW would sorely be lacking in leadership with him gone (visions 
of an ultimate battle between LV and a ghostly Dumbledore just 
flashed before my eyes). But OTOH his insistence is SS that "to the 
well organized mind death is but the next great adventure" would seem 
to argue against that, so I suppose I'll stick with Neville. 

Meri (who will weep for Neville if he doesn't make it out alive)