JKR website update ( Nearly Headless Nick)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126005


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> 
> If you have not seen it yet, Leaky Caudron mentions that JKR 
updated 
> her website (Extra stuff section, characters). There is a poem 
which 
> Nearly headless Nick was supposed to recite in CoS to tell about 
his 
> beheading. JKR's editor did not like the song that much at that 
> time. :)
> 
> Anyways, my question would be whether the reason that JKR posted 
it 
> now is to give us more interesting details about past books or to 
> give us more of HBP-related hints?
> 
> Do you think we'll see more of Nick in HBP? What do you think his 
> role could be IF it were to increase?
> 
> Since I am fond of speculation that Harry will somehow go behind 
the 
> Veil to try and find Sirius there, I thought maybe Nick will be 
> Harry's guide, but then I realised that he as ghost cannot really 
go 
> in that 
> world, or can he?
> 
> What do you guys think? 
> 
> Alla.

a_svirn:

The ballad has been on the site for ages. TLC only mentioned it 
because JKR decided to donate the original draft to the Scottish 
Dictionary. 
a-svirn