Moaning Myrtle---Muggleborn?

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 157193

Luckdragon wrote:

> I would love to find out she is related to Harry in some way. I find 
> myself feeling sorry for Myrtle despite her seeming enjoyment of her 
> own misery. I wish she had played a bigger part in previous books in 
> helping Harry learn more about the secrets of the castle and what 
> Draco was up to. A ghostly informant to help out the trio. Myrtle 
> does seem to parallel Hermione in some ways in that she is used to 
> impart information we otherwise would not have known.

Abergoat adds:
I'm not sure Myrtle's story is quite over. I'm suspicious that someone
else has talked to Myrtle about how she died, and that someone is why
Hagrid wasn't completely expelled but allowed to stay on at school.
(Unfortunately Myrtle herself tells us that she ran off to haunt Olive
Hornby. So this someone couldn't have a professor talk directly with
her informant, Myrtle. My guess is that by the time Myrtle returned to
Hogwarts it was too late so Dumbledore was only able to cast enough
doubt to allow Hagrid to stay on, but not as a student.)

And given the convenient timing of the publication of Harry's favorite
Potions book, that someone may well be Snape's mother.

Abergoat