How to become a ghost

[phoenixwriter]

No: HPFGUIDX 83323

Sorry if this has already been discussed. 

I have been thinking about it and wondering why some people become 
ghosts and others do not.

You see, I'm one of those who believe that love is the main theme. If 
you start to think along that line, then I guess it is pretty 
interesting that Sirius did not become a ghost, but Myrtle did. I 
think a person has to be unloved at the 
point they die. If there is nobody who sheds a tear and nobody who 
misses the person, then they become a ghost.

Nobody missed Myrtle when she died, nobody cried about her. But 
Sirius had Harry who cried and missed him, so he couldn't become a 
ghost. He was beloved. Harry's 
parents were beloved too. Dumbledore and McGonagall missed 
them and were sad about their death in PS/SS. And Sirius, of course, 
missed them too. Why didn't Mr. Crouch become a ghost? Because Winky 
cried for him.

According to this theory, will Vodemort become a ghost when he dies 
or not? No, he won't because he is someone who killed people. Maybe 
if Riddle 
died at 15 or 16 like Myrtle, then he would have been a ghost.

I think Bertha Jorkins could be a ghost right now. 

Why do ghosts exist? In order to get a chance which they didn't get 
when they were alive: to learn to love somebody and be loved in 
return.

That's it.

PW