One Dore closes another Dore opens

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 167550

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barry" <whealthinc at ...> wrote:
>

Radcliffe quotes a conversation with JKR.
>
> Dan: Oh, hello, why are you here today?
> JKR: ... Dumbledore's giving me a lot of trouble.
> Dan: But isn't he dead?
> JKR: Well, yeah, but it's a lot more complex...
>
> So DD is in a portrait but JKR can't quite decide how alive he is.
We
> don't get consistency in post-life with the portraits, ghosts and
> Peeves who appears to be a ghost but is mistakenly called a
> poltergeist. So I think all seven HP books should be seen as works
in
> progress. In a few years time, JKR will revise them with their
whole in
> mind.


JW:

With all due respect to your sincerity and creativity, I must
disagree with at least one fact and some possibilities.

First, what makes you believe Peeves is **mistakenly** called a
poltergeist?  It appears to most readers - not to mention the author
herself - that Peeves is INDEED a poltergeist.  Beyond the invocation
of Shesezso, we have evidence to support this differentiation. Peeves
commonly physically interacts with material objects in ways that
ghosts never do.  Further, we are told that ghosts are a pale imprint
left by those who were living and died.  Peeves can not be a ghost
because he never lived.

Second, it is quite possible that it is not the portrait of DD that
causes JKR's problem.  There are several other ways in which the dead
DD could communicate.  Of course, they would all arise from actions
taken when DD was alive - examples might include DD time-traveling
into the future to speak with other characters, or otherwise impact
the plot of DH; memory threads that could be used in the pensieve; or
even good old, mundane letters written by DD that would not be read
until after his death.  Honestly, my view is that having serious
problems over portraits rates a low probability.

Do you mean that portraits do not act the same as ghosts, and both
are different from poltergeists?  Quite simply, they act differently
because they ARE different.  Each of the three types of characters
have unique characteristics that set them apart from the other two.
Or do you mean that some portraits act differently from other
portraits, and some ghosts act differently from other ghosts?  If so,
it is not a huge problem - after all, when alive these characters
acted very differently from each other.  Why would they all act the
same after death?

JW