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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amelia "Mia" Adair
Slytherin Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Leigh Upstead
Hufflepuff Fifth Year  x11
|  be curious, not judgmental
Sweet Merlin, the darkness AND the coldness that filled the room upon her entrance at the beginning of class definitely set a spooky tone for this class, hadn't it? As if a dead woman teaching their class wasn't spooky enough already sometimes. There had also been no professor, which was also weird, and considering how it seemed as though the Grey Lady hadn't prepared the classroom much if at all for them... uh, had she gotten the class time wrong? If she had, so had everyone else, but soon enough, the ghost appeared, apologetic, and had lit the classroom. Well. Good. That was better, and Soph wiggled in her seat next to Zander's, nonverbally casting the insulation charm, Caelum Saepio, with her wand directed toward the nearest wall, then up toward the ceiling, causing a little fog to coat the intended surfaces, then dissipate, just as Fuller had taught them it would. Just helping the cause a little. Not completely worthless over here.
When the professor started class, Soph sat up in her chair, her eyes flickering with excitement as the professor picked out a topic that SHE had even recommended in her homework assignment. Ha. GHOSTS. Was she going to get to talk about Lainey and the others and how they came back from the dead? Was the Grey Lady jealous of them? Was the Grey Lady going to talk about HER own experience with being a ghost and tell them her whole life story and make this whole class about her?!
If she was, that was totally AWESOME.
What was a ghost, and what was the difference between one and a poltergeist? Easy peasy. They'd very briefly gone over this in a class with Glendower before, she thought, but Soph was happy to dive into this topic again, especially since a REAL ghost was here teaching them. She listened to the others' answers for awhile before finally raising her hand, touching upon only the subject of poltergeists, since people were leaving out the crucial detail of how poltergeists formed in the first place. If they weren't dead spirits, what were they, hm? Sophie Brown was here to fill in the holes.
"I'd argue that rather than use the term "never alive" to describe a poltergeist, we should say never corporeal. I mean, we'd argue that Peeves or Samea are plenty alive in spirit, they're full of the OTHER definiton of "life," they've just never had bodies and been human. 'N while we're not ENTIRELY sure where they come from, some think poltergeists are the result of a person dying in a powerful rage at the time of death, like, the poltergeist is formed from those energies from that death," she shrugged over at Rea, who'd offered up a similar thing on the concept of ghosts, "and some people think poltergeists come from negative energies emitted from young people. Like us. Teenagers. Like, all of our angst and negative emotions we give off create a sorta big magical aura energy thing that once got so powerful that it formed a poltergeist. Then maybe the continuation of those kind of emotions being emitted makes 'em keep existing. Fuels 'em. Which'd make since that we'd have 'em here, since it's like angst central confined within Hogwarts' walls. But I think the most commonly accepted theory is that they're the result of REALLY super strong emotions from a person, 'specially at the time of death, 'n they just... come into being from those super powerful emotions. They were never a being, always a spirit with no past life or anything like a ghost."
And the death part made sense since people died at Hogwarts all the time throughout its history. Obviously.
All right. All done.
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