Peeves; was:Protection for EVERYONE at Hogwarts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89871

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amanitamuscaria1"
<saraandra at s...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizvega2" <lizvega2 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Trelawney
> > Snape
> > Flitwick
> > Firenze
> > Hagrid
> > McGonagall? Sprout? Pomfrey? Vector? Filch?
> 
> Now 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.

Carol:
I thought the same thing recently when I reread Fleur's comment in GoF
that a poltergeist wouldn't have been allowed in Beauxbatons. I know
we can't always take a character's word as fact, but I think she's
right in this. I can't see Madame Maxime tolerating Peeves for a
moment. I'm not even sure that Karkaroff (if he were still headmaster)
would allow him in Durmstrang. (Too frivolous, and we're deadly
serious about the Dark Arts here, thank you.) So it does seem as if
Peeves is yet another outcast that DD has taken under his wing. Too
bad he and Filch can't recognize and appreciate the similarity of
their respective positions. :-)

Carol