Controling Peeves

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 90711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop" 
<fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:
> I have been wondering why some of the students (the trio) haven't 
> tried to find some way of controlling Peeves. 

Carolyn:

If you search back in the archives there are some really interesting 
posts as to what Peeves really is - basically, that he is an 
emanation of the mischevious trouble-making spirits all around him 
(ie the kids, mainly).

On this line of thought, the trio especially would not be able to 
control him, just make him worse. Perhaps the teachers don't do 
anything about him because they regard him as a healthy kind of 
litmus test, that all the kids are behaving pretty normally.

If he started to fade away and stop misbehaving, its an early warning 
for them that something's up. A bit of canon to support this is the 
passage in GOF at the Yule Ball, where Fleur is explaining to the 
dazed Roger Davies that if they had a poltergeist at Beauxbatons, "e' 
would be expelled like zat". The Beauxbatons students are noticeably 
better behaved than the Hogwarts pupils (standing up when Mdme Maxime 
enters etc); probably a poltergeist would have a thin time of it 
there.