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Post by theroyalsweeti on Dec 30, 2003 23:29:32 GMT -5
^ I was thinking along the same lines... perhaps it has to do with the way they died or a certain type of people.
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Post by HikariHeart on Dec 30, 2003 23:34:01 GMT -5
Well lets look at the ghosts we know how they died and see if we can find a pattern there.
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Post by theroyalsweeti on Dec 30, 2003 23:51:27 GMT -5
Lets see... Nick was improperly beheaded, Professor Binns woke up and didn't know he was dead... who else is there that we know how they died? Fat Friar, Bloody Baron, Grey Lady... has it been revealed how they died? Peeves is a Poltergeist... does that make a difference?
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Post by Ginny Weasley on Dec 30, 2003 23:54:54 GMT -5
Urgg. . .tough one. Maybe it's if you didn't die in a "normal" way... if your killing didn't go the way it was supposed to, or you didn't notice you'd died..?
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Post by fantasyfan1 on Dec 30, 2003 23:57:49 GMT -5
Other ghosts: Myrtle. Becoming a ghost is a choice, and you have to be scared to move into the next life or afterlife or whatever.
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Post by Ginny Weasley on Dec 30, 2003 23:59:16 GMT -5
Other ghosts: Myrtle. Becoming a ghost is a choice, and you have to be scared to move into the next life or afterlife or whatever. Oooh Myrtle fits nicely into my post above. . .she didn't know she was dead, she just saw the basilisk's eyes.
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Post by fantasyfan1 on Dec 31, 2003 0:00:21 GMT -5
I don't own book 2 (everyone cry for me) but you can look up the deathday party and see what other types of ghosts are there.
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Post by Ginny Weasley on Dec 31, 2003 0:02:59 GMT -5
There was Patrick Delaney-Podmore. . .who was decapitated. There was the whole Headless Hunt (decapitated.) It didn't say how the Wailing Widow of Kent died.
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Post by theroyalsweeti on Dec 31, 2003 0:10:48 GMT -5
I would assume that the Wailing Widow of Kent was depressed or she would not have been wailing. I think it has something to do with a choice etc... and not knowing that you're dead would fit into that because you would be unable to make that choice.... just a theory.
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Post by fantasyfan1 on Dec 31, 2003 0:11:43 GMT -5
Yeah, and it has everything with being scared to move on. James is depicted as being very brave- I can't see him being afraid of death.
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Post by theroyalsweeti on Dec 31, 2003 0:21:46 GMT -5
^ Very good point. And the most we know about Lily is that she stands up for people (even though she may not like them.... ie Snape scenerio) and I suppose that would be a sign of bravery as well.
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Post by jem on Dec 31, 2003 8:47:56 GMT -5
i think sirius's ghost will come back in the next book. i think jkr only cried when writing his death because of how it was affecting harry, not because sirius was dead. i think sirius will become a ghost, but at some point, he will kind of become happier or whatever and get to go on to the place everyone else goes to when they die. and i hope moaning myrtle gets to do the same.
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Post by everest on Dec 31, 2003 11:11:27 GMT -5
will still dont know enough about ghosts to know wether that could happen jem and didnt nick say sirius wouldnt come back.
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Post by PuppyDawg on Dec 31, 2003 9:44:50 GMT -5
I know about five million (exaggeration) people said Sirius is gone forever, but is that JK throwing us off?
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Post by theroyalsweeti on Dec 31, 2003 20:25:43 GMT -5
I think that at the very least, we will see Sirius in the same sense that we saw Lily and James in GoF. I am not saying that it will be the exact same thing but I think it will be that type of thing... not necessarily his ghost but a shadow of him somehow....
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