[HPforGrownups] Re: One Dore closes another Dore opens

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 167597

hickengruendler wrote:
> Peeves is a poltergeist. He is not a ghost. Nearly-Headless Nick 
> already said so back in Philosopher's Stone, that Peeves wasn't even 
> a real ghost. Rowling has also made this pretty clear on her website. 
> Whatever JKR's flaws in worldbuilding may have been (and IMO, even 
> though a few exist, I find them hardly bothersome so far), she was 
> always very consistent regarding what Peeves is (a Poltergeist) and 
> what he isn't (a ghost like Nick or Myrtle).

	But what the hell does that MEAN? Poltergeists are generated (and 
continually powered) by human beings; generally a human being who is 
suppressing heavy emotions. Which could bring up some interesting 
possibilities.

	I was thinking Snape, but was just considering the possibilities of it 
being Filch (like where his absent powers are appearing?).

	Bart