CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 22 - St. Mungo's Hospital

Tue Jul 6 00:26:16 UTC 2004

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Phineas agrees to help, but says he won't be surprised if Sirius had
destroyed his painting. At this point, Harry remembers where he'd
heard that voice before - from the painting in his bedroom at
Grimmauld Place. Dumbledore assures Phineas that the painting has not
been destroyed, and asks him to tell Sirius that Arthur Weasley has
been injured, and that his wife, children, and Harry Potter would be
arriving shortly.

What I would like to know is, when Phineas was subordinate and 
another portrait asked Dumbledore if she could persuade him, raising 
an unusually thick wand that looked not unlike a birch rod, can 
another ghost or portrait cause harm to one another? It appears they 
can, if so what harm? Peeves is afraid of the Bloody Baron why? How 
can the Bloody Baron hurt Peeves any more than the portrait of the 
woman persuade Phineas, through her suggestion of harm with the birch 
rod, to do as Dumbledore asks him? 