[the_old_crowd] Re: Viewing the evidence

[Rebecca Bowen]

>Dungrollin said:

>Ok, I give up on the strict adherence to canon altogether (that
>didn't last long), here's some speculation:
>The Bloody Baron doesn't say much, does he? He's not quite as human-
>seeming as NHN or the fat friar. One possibility is that
>when alive he was a murderer (he's the Slytherin ghost, he seems to
>have met with a violent end himself - it's not that much of a
>stretch), so his soul is more tattered than NHN's, which could be
>why he's less functional as a ghost. Which would explain why Vapour!
>Mort was 'less than the meanest ghost' - his tattered soul was
>knackered from all the killing sprees.

Rebecca:

I'll join you in non-canon land and raise you twenty. :)  Other than I agree 
that it's more than possible JKR hid Grindelwald in plain view of everybody, 
who else would Peeves be afraid of and the rest of the ghosts avoid?

Rebecca