A/N: I donno, it just sort of came to me while I was sitting in the
cafeteria alone after school, waiting for my mom to pick me up. Its
not really a story, but its not quite an essay either, it's just about
what Peeves is. It actually might be the beginning of a story though,
from his point of view. I'm not sure if I'll write it though, unless
people are actually interested. I think this would be the first story
centering around him, wouldn't it? And firsts are certainly an
endangered species in the area of Harry Potter...Oh, just go on and
read it.
Disclaimer: ...anyone reading this who thought I owned the Harry Potter
universe would have to be pretty stupid, wouldn't they? Let's all
point and laugh at them!
The Art of Destruction
By LejindaryBunny
That Peeves was a one of the castle ghosts was a misconception. He
was in fact a poltergeist and, yes, there is a difference, a rather
large one at that. Peeves had never lived. He had never died. He simply
was.
Muggle paranormalists have a something of a fascination with so-called
'poltergeist activity' which is characterized by physical and usually
destructive changes in the environment. Examples include doors suddenly
shutting in peoples faces, expensive vases throwing themselves crashing
to the floor for no apparent reason, and people pitching head first down
flights of stairs as though someone had tripped them. These muggles
have speculated that, unlike ghosts and other apparitions which tend
not to be able to affect the physical world, that these events are
caused not be the souls of the troubled dead, but instead the troubled
living, usually overstressed adolescents. This actually is much closer
to the truth than muggles come to explaining most extraordinary
phenomena and indeed the theory is not entirely wrong.
The students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are
exactly the same as regular adolescents in nearly all respects. They are
subject to the same pressures to do well in classes, in sports, they
have friend problems, and enemies and love trouble, and they dislike
their teachers. They have the normal desire to vent these frustrations
in a vengeful and destructive sort of way.
There is however one key difference between Hogwarts students and
their muggle counterparts. Hogwarts students have magic.
Peeves was in fact the single oldest occupant of the castle, having
started to come into being three days before the school's first final
exams. Tensions were running high and tempers were on the very edge. He
manifested first as a phantom wind, scattering a large number of
uncorrected History of Magic essays down a very recently mopped hallway.
The next day a crystal ball seemingly lifted itself off the table and
flew around the Divinations classroom donking people on the head.
During lunch the great hall rang with a disembodied voice shouting
unprintable limericks about the four Hogwarts founders who were present
at the time. (To say Slytherin was irate would be like saying the sun
was a little warm.) The same voice whispered incorrect ingredients and
measurements into the ears of students taking their first Potions exam.
That evening a student was relaxing eyes closed, sprawled over an
armchair. She opened her eyes to the unpleasant sight of a grinning,
befreckled face less than an inch from her nose.
'Boo.'
The girl screamed rather loudly, having been treated to witness
Peeves very first visible manifestation. He, on the other hand, wafted
off in a fit of giggles.
Peeves was and is the personified manifestation of all the nastier
impulses, whether conscious or not, that students have and never do for
the simple reason they were they to follow these impulses they would be
given detention, expelled, imprisoned, hanged etcetera. These feelings
and desires coupled with the sheer magnitude of magic energy thrown
around every day on the environs combined to unintentionally create an
entity to carry out the pranks that no one could do and make the awful
remarks that no one would say. In actuality Peeves is the result and
recipient of all the anxiety of teenage life and the creature with the
capability to release these tensions. The wreaking of various forms
of havoc and mischief in response to these tensions are literally
his reason for being, effectively making him a perpetually
outgoing, angst ridden, shameless delinquent of a teenager. It his place
in the world to muddy the entrance of the castle as Filch walks in,
to trip Neville Longbottom down the stairs and to say all the very rude
things to Snape's face that everyone would love to say but would like
to continue breathing.
It is generally agreed that Peeves does all this very well.
***
A/N: Hmmm...So, what do you think of it? I'd love to hear your opinion
so please, please, please review!
cafeteria alone after school, waiting for my mom to pick me up. Its
not really a story, but its not quite an essay either, it's just about
what Peeves is. It actually might be the beginning of a story though,
from his point of view. I'm not sure if I'll write it though, unless
people are actually interested. I think this would be the first story
centering around him, wouldn't it? And firsts are certainly an
endangered species in the area of Harry Potter...Oh, just go on and
read it.
Disclaimer: ...anyone reading this who thought I owned the Harry Potter
universe would have to be pretty stupid, wouldn't they? Let's all
point and laugh at them!
The Art of Destruction
By LejindaryBunny
That Peeves was a one of the castle ghosts was a misconception. He
was in fact a poltergeist and, yes, there is a difference, a rather
large one at that. Peeves had never lived. He had never died. He simply
was.
Muggle paranormalists have a something of a fascination with so-called
'poltergeist activity' which is characterized by physical and usually
destructive changes in the environment. Examples include doors suddenly
shutting in peoples faces, expensive vases throwing themselves crashing
to the floor for no apparent reason, and people pitching head first down
flights of stairs as though someone had tripped them. These muggles
have speculated that, unlike ghosts and other apparitions which tend
not to be able to affect the physical world, that these events are
caused not be the souls of the troubled dead, but instead the troubled
living, usually overstressed adolescents. This actually is much closer
to the truth than muggles come to explaining most extraordinary
phenomena and indeed the theory is not entirely wrong.
The students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are
exactly the same as regular adolescents in nearly all respects. They are
subject to the same pressures to do well in classes, in sports, they
have friend problems, and enemies and love trouble, and they dislike
their teachers. They have the normal desire to vent these frustrations
in a vengeful and destructive sort of way.
There is however one key difference between Hogwarts students and
their muggle counterparts. Hogwarts students have magic.
Peeves was in fact the single oldest occupant of the castle, having
started to come into being three days before the school's first final
exams. Tensions were running high and tempers were on the very edge. He
manifested first as a phantom wind, scattering a large number of
uncorrected History of Magic essays down a very recently mopped hallway.
The next day a crystal ball seemingly lifted itself off the table and
flew around the Divinations classroom donking people on the head.
During lunch the great hall rang with a disembodied voice shouting
unprintable limericks about the four Hogwarts founders who were present
at the time. (To say Slytherin was irate would be like saying the sun
was a little warm.) The same voice whispered incorrect ingredients and
measurements into the ears of students taking their first Potions exam.
That evening a student was relaxing eyes closed, sprawled over an
armchair. She opened her eyes to the unpleasant sight of a grinning,
befreckled face less than an inch from her nose.
'Boo.'
The girl screamed rather loudly, having been treated to witness
Peeves very first visible manifestation. He, on the other hand, wafted
off in a fit of giggles.
Peeves was and is the personified manifestation of all the nastier
impulses, whether conscious or not, that students have and never do for
the simple reason they were they to follow these impulses they would be
given detention, expelled, imprisoned, hanged etcetera. These feelings
and desires coupled with the sheer magnitude of magic energy thrown
around every day on the environs combined to unintentionally create an
entity to carry out the pranks that no one could do and make the awful
remarks that no one would say. In actuality Peeves is the result and
recipient of all the anxiety of teenage life and the creature with the
capability to release these tensions. The wreaking of various forms
of havoc and mischief in response to these tensions are literally
his reason for being, effectively making him a perpetually
outgoing, angst ridden, shameless delinquent of a teenager. It his place
in the world to muddy the entrance of the castle as Filch walks in,
to trip Neville Longbottom down the stairs and to say all the very rude
things to Snape's face that everyone would love to say but would like
to continue breathing.
It is generally agreed that Peeves does all this very well.
***
A/N: Hmmm...So, what do you think of it? I'd love to hear your opinion
so please, please, please review!