[HPforGrownups] The Bloody Baron's Blood

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 153480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phil Vlasak" <phil at ...> wrote:
>
> Laura Lynn Walsh said:
> How did The Bloody Baron get bloody?  He is described as
> being covered with silver blood.  The only source I have read
> about for silver blood is a unicorn.  Since he was covered
> with it as a ghost, I would assume that something happened
> to him at the time of his death that would have covered him
> with unicorn's blood.  Is there anything else we know about
> him?
> Laura
>
> Now Phil:
> From COS:
> "Oh, well ... I'd just been thinking ...
> if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet,"
> said Myrtle, blushing silver.
> 

bbboyminn:

I think Phil is on the right track here. We know the blood is silver,
but we also know that Ghost themselves are silvery in color. To put it
another way, ghosts are monochromatic; they consist of varying shades
of a single color that is a pale silvery color. 

The Bloody Baron's blood has come up several times in the book, and it
is difficult to determine if JKR is simply maintaining the Bloody
Barons mystic, or if she is constantly pointing out something that
will eventually be significant to the story. 

So, no I don't think the Bloody Baron's blood is necessarily Unicorn
blood, it could be, but I don't think we can use the silver color to
determine that. 

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn