Ghosts, Horcruxes, The Veil, and Death in the Wizarding World

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 152796

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Najwa" <empress.najwa at ...> wrote:
>
> Can someone help me grasp a few concepts better, because the more I
> think about them, the more confused I get. 
> 
> People who die unhappy become ghosts right? Or is it people that are 
> afraid to die become ghosts? ...edited...
> 
> Najwa
>


bboyminn:

Hi, Najwa, thanks for the email.

Well, this is based on speculation and general knowledge of ghosts,
but I think it is both. Though, it is not quite 'unhappy' people who
become ghosts. I think it is people who have some unresolved trama
here on earth holding them back. Look at Moaning Myrtle, she died a
dark and early death while feeling very low and depressed. I think she
stayed behind because she was furious about, what's her name, that
Hornby girl who tormented her. Her life was unresolved and
unfulfilled, and she blamed ?Hornby for her death and was determined
to make her pay. So, yes, unhappiness in a sense, but more unresolved
trama.

In Nick's case, he was simply afraid of death, afraid of what lay
beyond, and chose as he called it, his pale imitation of life instead.
Note that Nick also died under extremely tramatic circumstances, forty
wacks with a blunt axe that did not completely sever his neck. 

So, while the circumstances may vary, I think it mostly centers around
people who die under very emotionally tramatic circumstances. So,
tramatic that they are determine to stay to resolve the trama, as in
Myrtle's case, or because they are afraid of death, as in Nick's case.

While Sirius, Lily, and James all died under Dramatic circumstances,
it really wasn't that Tramatic. I think once the felt the peace and
saw the light, they went for it.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn