One Dore closes another Dore opens

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 167578

Carol:
> I'm not sure where you got the teenage ghost idea, but Peeves is 
definitely a poltergeist as JKR envisions a poltergeist, not a wizard 
who died but was afraid to "go on" and consequently left "a pale 
imprint of himself" on earth, as she envisions a ghost as being. 
Peeves, it appears, is as old as Hogwarts and will remain there, 
causing mischief for the inhabitants, as long as Hogwarts stands. (If 
you've acquired the scrapbook items on JKR's website, you can see her 
drawing of Peeves--definitely solid and not a ghost, in contrast to 
NHN and the others.)

Ceridwen:
According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist (and 
other sources I've read over the years), poltergeists are 
manifestations which usually occur around a person who triggers the 
phenomenon.  The trigger person is often a teen-ager whose hormones 
are going nuts.

Since JKR tweaks things a bit to put them in the series, it would 
make a lot of sense for a school populated by pubescent teens to 
have, at the least, one poltergeist.  He would be born of the 
elevated hormones and the magic of those students, and nourished by 
it, too.  Being a series about a magical boy, the poltergeist will be 
visible while in the Real World, poltergeists are recognized only by 
their activity.

Carol:
> Again, I agree with JW here. We don't know that JKR was talking to 
Dan Radcliffe about Portrait!Dumbledore when she (ostensibly) said 
that DD was giving her trouble. Given her interview remarks about the
limitations of portraits, I think it's probably some other 
manifestation of DD that was giving her trouble.

Ceridwen:
I'm hoping for another flashback chapter, or a chapter outside of 
Harry's POV.  If we get a flashback chapter, then Dumbledore can 
appear without being portrait, ghost, or beyond the veil.  If we get 
the story behind the Prank this way, Dumbledore would play a role in 
the aftermath of the Prank.

Ceridwen.