Slytherin's Ghost

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 122872


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> 
> This has probably been discussed before, since almost everything 
has as least once. But forgive an old Auror's memory.
> 

Valky:
If it has, it's before my time. 


> I was rereading PS/SS and came to the part just after the sorting 
> when they meet the ghosts. Sir Nick says the Bloody Baron is the 
> Slytherin ghost. ""Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and 
saw  a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a 
gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood." 
> Unicorn blood.  ..........?
> 
> Tonks_op

Valky:

Really good observation Tonks! 
Ok, well theres heaps of canon stuff to back it up. Ghosts are 
people who were afraid of death and unicorn blood will keep you 
alive if your nearly dead... lets say that adds up neatly. 

Bloody Baron is s Slytherin ghost, bent to the side on self-
preservation I expect, so I can imagine he'd drink it in spite of 
the curse. I am not a believer that all Slytherins are evil, in fact 
I honestly think old Sally was probably a really great guy, I think 
that Snape is OK too. But Slytherin house asks for specific traits 
from it's members and one of them *is* a good dose of self interest.

All in all the chances are good that the silvery blood on BB is 
Unicorn blood. Perhaps *this* is his power over Peeves, maybe he 
never really died just faded out into a cursed ghostlike existence, 
maybe he has a spooky kind of residual magic left that exists 
between life and death. hmmm