Bloody Baron (was: Re: re:blood/Hermione'sOWLs/ )

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 157508

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/157488>:

> Interesting thought. Still, I must wonder just *how* the Bloody 
> Baron got to keep the blood while others did not. 

My idea is that ghosts don't have insides -- they are all surface
(exterior); only the part which is on view exists. So a ghost has no
blood *inside* him/her. But the Bloody Baron has blood on his exterior
(splashed over his clothes). I've always assumed that it was his own
blood, resulting from him being killed in a blood-gushing way. So the
reason he still has some of his blood is that it was on his exterior
when he died. And (I suppose) that the manner of his death was so
traumatic and so related to him staying on as a ghost that he retained
that sign of it. I speculate that he was stabbed through by his own
enchanted spear.

As for Sir Nick and the Headless Hunters, they each have two bits of
exterior that are normally interior - either side of the cut through
their necks. I'm sure there'd be a big spurt of blood all over the
place from cutting through the arteries that feed the head, and
probably some slow dripping between death and coagulation. So they
might have kept some of that exterior blood in their ghostly form. But
I get the impression that Sir Nick and the Headless Hunters are not
bloody, gory sights, and I suppose the reason is that their self-image
is as gentlemen with clean clothes.