Fat Friar (was ghosts, magicians and babies was Re: Questions

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119265


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> 
> > > Elanor Pam wrote:
> > > The Fat Friar was a friar - but he was also a wizard (well, he's
HufflePuff's ghost, so I assume he was). <snip>
> > 
> > Potioncat responded:
> > How did he become both?  According to JKR the ghosts were in the
house they now haunt.  If FF was at Hogwarts from 11--17, when did he
go to the monestary?> 
> 
> Juli: What if instead of being a wizard and a friar he was just a
wizard who by some reason got the nickname of fat friar? 
> 
> Juli

Carol notes:
But isn't there a lso a pportrait of some monks in Hogwarts?
Presumably they were wizards as well, probably at a time when the
separation between the MW and the WW hadn't become final.

I'm pretty sure that the Fat Friar was a Hufflepuff (after all, he's
that house's resident ghost) who became a real friar at around age
eighteen, but at his death decided that the best years of his life
were at Hogwarts, so that's where he returned after death. I really
don't see any contradiction between being a wizard and being a friar
in the *early* Middle Ages. Even as late as the fourteenth century,
when witch-burning was in full swing, he could have been known in the
MW for performing "miracles" instead of magic.

Carol