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

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justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > 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?> 
> 
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


Griffin782002 now:

Well, I have no idea about JKR mentioning that the ghosts did once belonged to the houses they now haunt, but I wonder what if he was a Muggle friar with acquitances to the WW, in a time as Carol said when the split between Muggles and Wizards was not final, and that he went to live as a ghost in Hogwarts? I mean there are stories of haunted houses in RW.

And if in the Potterverse only wizards can become ghosts that mean ghosts in Muggle residences were Wizards too?

Griffin782002 who thinks that locking her mother, brother and mother's sister in the Death Chamber would a more effective way to kill someone; they horrible singers!!!! :-P 


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