Ghosts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89271

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hpoldfan" <WFeuchter at m...> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion on where the ghosts came from. In the 
> muggle world in both fiction and in the few documented cases from 
> real life ghosts haunt the place that they died.
> 
> Does this mean that the ghosts were at Hogswarts as teachers or 
> other staff. Or in the WW are ghosts more mobile?
> 
> Bill

I think they haunt (if that's the right word) the place where they
want to be. Possibly the Grey Lady (the Ravenclaw ghost, about whom we
know almost nothing) was a teacher at Hogwarts and died there, but Sir
Nick was a knight and was beheaded, presumably for treason (or
perceived treason) to the Crown. I very much doubt that his execution
took place at Hogwarts. Myrtle was murdered in the girls' bathroom,
but she wasn't forced to stay there until she started hauntiing Olive
Hornby. (i'm not sure who could force a ghost to stay (mostly) in one
place: most likely the Bloody Baron. (His presumably violent death
probably didn't take place at Hogwarts, either. I'm guessing that he
was a former student around the time Hogwarts was founded or slightly
afterwards, and maybe the school was the only home he ever knew. (I
don't think the Bloody Baron is a bad guy, however scary he may
appear. He can control Peeves, after all.)

As for ghosts elsewhere in the WW, we haven't met any, have we?

Carol