Myrtle in the cold, cold ground...

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 99783

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <technomad at i...> 
wrote:
snips 
> _Perhaps_ if Harry or _someone_ took enough interest in Myrtle to 
_ask her
> her last name_ and whether or not her parents were magical, she 
might not be
> quite so unhappy.
> 
Meri adds: That's an interesting idea, though Myrtle does seem to be 
most flattered when people ask about her death, but she is certainly 
a valuable ally for HRH. She probably knows a good bit about the 
castle (at least the plumbing systems) which could be useful should 
the Last Great Battle take place at Hpgwarts. 

> This sounds like a job for Studious!Hermione---or maybe Harry 
could get his
> head on straight enough to ask some questions.

Meri: Don't you think asking Harry to get his head on straight is 
asking a bit much right now? But, then again, he did feel pity for 
Luna after finding out that some of his fellow students find it 
funny to take her things, so maybe pity is the one emotion that 
Harry is, at this point, capable of. 

> And, come to it---we know _nothing_ about Wizard World burial 
customs, don't
> we?  I'd not be surprised if they cremated---we know for sure that
> people---like, say, a certain inept Dark Lord we all know and, er,
> know---can do Bad Things with unprotected corpses and parts 
thereof.

Meri: Ooooh, interesting...You mean like the Black Cauldron from 
Lloyd Alexander? That would be something else, wouldn't it? We don't 
know anything about how dementors get created or where they come 
from. Wandering, soulless, deathless corpses anyone? I really hope 
JKR explains that particular piece of cannon as well.  
 
> --Eric, who thinks that if he were a ghost he'd be known as
> Never-Gets-Out-Of-The-Library Eric.  (Hey, it beats Nearly-
Headless Nick!)

Meri - who were she a ghost may very well be haunting the library 
with you (Merely Reading Meri? Doesn't have the same ring to is as 
Sir Properly Decapitated Podmore, though does it?)