Ramblings of a Slytherin
written by Siobhan Baird
Ramblings of a Slytherin includes a student rambling. No, really. Includes ramblings on various topics such as houses, class/school work, famous witches and wizards, movies, etc.
Last Updated
05/31/21
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2
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691
The Ghosts of Hogwarts
Chapter 2
When you were a young student earlier at Hogwarts before the war, the ghosts were of the past, and of long ago. Except for moaning Myrtle who tended to stick to the girl's bathroom, the ghosts were from times nobody remembered. At least it had been that easy then.
After the war however, things have changed. Some of the people who died, have decided not to go on to the afterlife just yet, and have decided to become their ghostly selves, prowling the halls of the school. Here you'd see ghosts of every house, Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw waiting patiently calling out to old friends and flames in the hallways of the school. You'd watch the living break down crying, seeing their friend there and yet knowing they'd never grow old, never experience living ever again. Something has been taken from them, and it is something terribly heartbreaking.
What I think was even more heartbreaking was seeing George walk into the school. He had to meet with our Headmistress about something, probably the stuff from his joke shop causing trouble, when he turns the corner and sees the person standing there looking out the window. Except it isn't a person not really but a ghost. He turns, and his face lights up with a glowing smile as the other one stares in shock before finally breaking down. The headmistress, wondering why he was late, finds him there his brother trying frantically to comfort him, but every effort to lay a hand on him, or offer him a hug, ends up going right through him. Two brothers separated by death and time, the two who used to do everything together, now utterly alone.
After the war, it was a sad thing burying the dead. And to see all the ghosts of Hogwarts pop up every where. As the weeks went by, some of the ghosts disappeared, to the other side everyone assumed. There were a lot of breakdowns in those days. Bit by bit it got better. The thing that hurts the most is not the experiences of what you have gone through, but the memories. and what helps you the most is not the memories you have but the experiences you have gone through. And that is why the war was so hard on everyone, even the ghosts at Hogwarts.
Because even if their tangible bodies or their friends were gone and died, they still had those memories and experiences to cling to. And sometimes that made it all better...or made it far more worse.
After the war however, things have changed. Some of the people who died, have decided not to go on to the afterlife just yet, and have decided to become their ghostly selves, prowling the halls of the school. Here you'd see ghosts of every house, Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw waiting patiently calling out to old friends and flames in the hallways of the school. You'd watch the living break down crying, seeing their friend there and yet knowing they'd never grow old, never experience living ever again. Something has been taken from them, and it is something terribly heartbreaking.
What I think was even more heartbreaking was seeing George walk into the school. He had to meet with our Headmistress about something, probably the stuff from his joke shop causing trouble, when he turns the corner and sees the person standing there looking out the window. Except it isn't a person not really but a ghost. He turns, and his face lights up with a glowing smile as the other one stares in shock before finally breaking down. The headmistress, wondering why he was late, finds him there his brother trying frantically to comfort him, but every effort to lay a hand on him, or offer him a hug, ends up going right through him. Two brothers separated by death and time, the two who used to do everything together, now utterly alone.
After the war, it was a sad thing burying the dead. And to see all the ghosts of Hogwarts pop up every where. As the weeks went by, some of the ghosts disappeared, to the other side everyone assumed. There were a lot of breakdowns in those days. Bit by bit it got better. The thing that hurts the most is not the experiences of what you have gone through, but the memories. and what helps you the most is not the memories you have but the experiences you have gone through. And that is why the war was so hard on everyone, even the ghosts at Hogwarts.
Because even if their tangible bodies or their friends were gone and died, they still had those memories and experiences to cling to. And sometimes that made it all better...or made it far more worse.
