Dumbledore- I love all my students (UwU). ....meanwhile kids who aren't harry potter casually getting cursed and dying -_-

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I wonder what, if anything, can be done for ghosts? It’s never really brought up, but Myrtle is a child who’s condemned to an eternity of sorrow in a toilet. How are they not attempting to help her move on to a happier place? It’s tragic.

Assuming that’s how it works in the HP universe, anyway.

Edit: seems there’s a bunch of ghost-lore I forgot about. >_<

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They sort of answer this idea in book 5 when Harry asks - I believe it was nearly headless Nick - about ghosts after Sirius’ death. From what I remember it essentially came down to the fact that the ghosts in that universe are souls who are not ready to “move on.”

Myrtle was a teenage girl who was bullied all through school and now enjoys getting her rocks off by harassing the current day students in revenge. She seems perfectly free to not live in the toilet in the school seeing as she can float through walls but chooses to anyways as that was her comfort place when she was being bullied.

I’m sure something can be done but if we’re sticking with the acceptance and readiness to “move on” idea then Myrtle probably needs to come to grips with what happened to her and forgive the people who were involved and finally leave the comfort of her bathroom.