The Bloody Baron

jelly92784 jelly92784 at yahoo.com
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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