foolhardy soft-headed buffons who couldn't stand to admit to so much as a whisper of weakness

[cimorene]

you know, i'm still waiting for an explanation in canon of the hp universe for why some dead people become ghosts and some don't.

admittedly since her ghosts don't seem to be in any way omniscient and can't cast spells, they wouldn't be necessarily a big plot-fix, but you'd think they might hover around and give advice sometimes. maybe it's being killed by magical means that prevents it.

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[mamahooch.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the basilisk's direct stare that killed people and those who were Petrified stayed alive because they only saw its reflection, or saw it through something else (like Colin Creevey with the camera, or Justin What's-His-Face through Nearly Headless Nick)? And isn't Prof. Binns (History of Magic, I think) a ghost who died in his sleep of old age or something?

Hmmmm... I have long wondered about the logic of this, myself.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh--oops, was thinking real mythology, forgot the hp canon. you're right about binns too.