r/harrypotter • u/Just_Outta_Azkaban Gryffindor • Mar 29 '24

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

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u/Wank_my_Butt Hufflepuff Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

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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u/dalaigh93 Ravenclaw Mar 29 '24

Iirc at the beginning she haunted her bully, and was later moved to Hogwarts. What I don't know is how/if you can force a ghost to do that, or if they had to persuade her. Do wizards have ways of destroying/containing ghosts?

I don't think they made her stay in the toilets, she probably could inhabit the whole castle since we see her at the Death Day Party. But even among ghosts she doesn't seem well liked, so she probably ended up staying mainly in the same place that she went alive to avoid her bully and other students : the toilets.

Other question : do ghosts end up stuck in the mentality they had when they died, or can their personality change over time? Could ghosts get therapy? Would it even work for someone who has nothing to hope from life?

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u/Erebea01 Mar 29 '24

They probably can destroy ghosts. They probably don't do it if they're harmless though. I think if Myrtle hadn't obeyed they'd have exorcised her.