The Bloody Baron
jelly92784
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Tue May 30 19:09:42 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 153139
Kim wrote:
The ghosts still fascinate me, especially the Bloody Baron. Doesn't
he look a bit like Snape? Of course, if they're related that blows
my theory that he's Slytherin since Snape wasn't the heir. So who
are these ghosts? Surely they'll come up somehow before it's over.
I'd love to think that they are more than window dressing for the
books.
Scholastic US Paperback, page 124:
Harry looked over at the Sytherin table and saw a horrible ghost
sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes
stained with silver blood.
Janelle:
I read this and my eye immediately stuck on the word "gaunt", as
in "The House of Gaunt". Any possibility that JKR is giving us a
clue and that the bloody baron has some relation here? This fits
with Kim's idea about the possibility of the Baron being Salazar
Slytherin himself as the Slytherin family became the Gaunt family.
I really wish I wasn't at work and could get out my book 6 and
double check my information, and try to find more, something about
silver blood maybe!
An interesting side note, I decided to look up the word gaunt and
one of the definitions was "Bleak and desolate; barren", drawing
another connection to the Bloody Baron.
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