Peeves; was:Protection for EVERYONE at Hogwarts

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89855

AmanitaMuscaria writes: I certainly agree with you that Hogwarts 
> appears to be a home for castouts, waifs and strays who are in 
need 
> of refuge and protection. 
> Witness Dobby and Winky within canon. 
> But what about the joker in the pack? I know we can't say very 
much 
> about Peeves, as we've not been given much info about him. But 
he's 
> impossible, disruptive, chaotic. There MUST be some reason why 
> Dumbledore allows him to stay? And I suspect channeling the 
> suppressed aggression of pubescent girls isn't it.
> There's no reference of him in the brief glimpses we've had of 
Tom's 
> schooldays and Dippett's headmastership, so presumably his 
residency 
> is fairly recent (in wizarding terms).
> I don't know why he's there, but I reckon he's got to be important.

Meri here: Peeves showed in OotP his good qualites, or quality, 
rather. He was loyal to Dumbledore and openly anti-Umbridge. Though 
in the first four books he was, of course, a slight hellraiser, he 
seemed to wait until the arrival of Umbridge to really cause some 
chaos, like a pair of redheaded, freckle faced, Quidditch playing 
hellions I could mention. Most of his previous infractions were 
little more than the type of pranks that the average kid would 
play: stuffing gum in keyholes and dropping water balloons. But he 
pulls out all the stops after Umbridge is named Headmistress, 
unscrewing chandelliers and the like. It is said in POA that DD is 
the only person at the school who can make Peeves behave. Maybe this 
respect and loyaly to the headmaster, and Peeves' presence at 
Hogwarts, are all related. Maybe Peeves has some unknown powers, or 
he serves as one of DD's multiple eyes and ears around the school. 
After all, he was the one who knew what had happened to the Fat Lady 
after her attack by Sirius Black. 

Meri (who thinks another good question to come out of OotP will be 
what's going to happen to Filch now that he's shown his true colors, 
but that is a post for another day)