Who is peeves

I wrote a bit about Peeves here , but will copy it into this post. Poltergeists do not spawn from the spirit of a person who has died, like a traditional ghost; a poltergeist is an evil or malevolent energy that forms from negative or tumultuous feelings or vibes from a living person.

Peeves is a bit of an exception, for he is corporeal. Traditionally, poltergeists are not they knock on things and make scary noises, and seem to exhibit the most activity in relation to one specific person whose energy the poltergeist is feeding off. Poltergeists can be quite damaging to property, though, as Peeves demonstrates throughout the series.

Anyhow, Peeves could not have been a spirit that had once been a person. Here's a little more information about Peeves from a question I answered here :. ES: Why does Dumbledore allow Peeves to stay in the castle? JKR: Can't get him out. ES: He's Dumbledore: he can do anything! JKR: No, no, no, no, no. Peeves is like dry rot. You can try and eradicate it.

It comes with the building. You're stuck. If you've got Peeves, you're stuck. MA: Allegedly? JKR: Yeah. Then it's going to start leaking again. Would you want Peeves gone, honestly? I enjoyed him most when he started obeying Fred and George at the end of Book 5.

JKR: Yeah, that was fun. I enjoyed that. That was satisfying. What isn't clear is how long Peeves has been at Hogwarts. His bowtie and bowler hat indicate he might be from a more modern time than from years ago; otherwise, I imagine he would be wearing a ruff and a jester hat or somesuch. The canonical information is that he was NOT a person in the past. He's a a spirit of chaos probably distantly related to my children - DVK.

Ron is somehow poisoned on his birthday, and ends up in the Hospital Wing. Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid visit him, but leave to make room for his family when Mr. Weasley arrive. Harry and Hermione are discussing a conversation between Dumbledore and Snape that Hagrid had overheard, and in order to retain secrecy, stop when they see Peeves float by.

Harry, wondering about where Draco Malfoy is spending all his time, hits upon the idea of setting Kreacher to tail him. When he calls Kreacher, Dobby arrives also, as they are apparently fighting over Kreacher having insulted Harry in front of Dobby.

Peeves, who is always in favour of chaos, also appears, and is egging them on. Harry, to avoid drawing attention to their arrival, shuts Peeves up , whereupon he angrily flies away. It is mentioned that as Harry and Luna Lovegood make their way from the Room of Requirement to Ravenclaw tower under the Invisibility Cloak, Harry is most afraid of running into Peeves.

Luckily, they avoid him. Peeves actually enters this book at the Battle at Hogwarts , near the end of the book. Professor McGonagall summons him to aid in the defence of the school.

During the battle itself, he soars above the fray, dropping things notably Snargaluff pods on Death Eaters. Once the battle is won, we can hear him in the distance, singing a victory song: " We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one.

Now Voldy 's gone mouldy, so now lets have fun! As a poltergeist, Peeves is able to move things and people. He is effectively uncontrollable and invulnerable, as he does not have any physical body. Peeves is apparently afraid of the Bloody Baron. No explanation for this is given, but this fact proves useful to Percy Weasley when he is trying to lead the Gryffindor first-year students to their dormitory, and later to Harry, when he, Ron, and Hermione are trying to reach the chamber of the Philosopher's Stone.

Peeves' main joy is to create chaos, and he responds to other characters only in ways that will contribute to the chaos. He will sometimes follow direct orders given to him by senior staff notably Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall and those who can injure him notably Professor Lupin. Only twice in the series do we see him accept instructions from students, and only once knowingly.

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Harry instructed Peeves to leave the area and not to return that night, while pretending to be The Bloody Baron from under his invisibility cloak.

We will see later that while Dumbledore can control him to a certain extent, he remains as disrespectful to Dumbledore as to everyone else — when Dumbledore is interrogating him about the damage to the Fat Lady's portrait in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Peeves answers correctly, but with no apparent respect for Dumbledore. It appears that Professor McGonagall has perhaps the same amount of control, as, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , he accepts her order to stop dropping water balloons on the arriving students.

We see this again when Filch is taking Harry to Dolores Umbridge's office in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ; Filch, with evident satisfaction about the changes that will be taking place with the change of Headmaster, lists the eviction of Peeves as one of the things that he is looking forward to.

We actually gather that Filch is perpetually upset with Peeves as early as the first book, though he doesn't say so directly. There has been a great deal of discussion of the nature of Peeves, and whether, as is said at several points, Professor Dumbledore actually can control him. In an interview, the author has compared Peeves to the stubborn plumbing common in older houses: temperamental, and while nobody can make it behave, Dumbledore is like the elder resident who knows how to coerce it into sufficiently good operation for the needs at hand.

One theory that seems reasonable is that Peeves is the natural result of having so many adolescent wizards in a single location.

Poltergeist activity is often believed to be seen in the vicinity of adolescents, particularly females; it is possible that Peeves is the embodiment of the accumulated polter energy of the several hundred young wizards in Hogwarts. It is certainly true that Peeves' activity was greater in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Umbridge was causing turmoil in the earlier part of the year, and considerably greater when Dumbledore was out of the castle in the later part of that book; but there did not seem to be extra activity on Peeves' part in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Dumbledore was suspended as Headmaster.

It is possible that the level of Peeves' activity is related to the dissatisfaction level of the students, rather than being affected directly by the headmaster. It is entirely possible that Peeves can only be removed from the school when everyone in it is satisfied with the way things are going, and that is extremely unlikely to ever happen.

Study questions are meant to be left for each student to answer; please don't answer them here. While Peeves is apparently fond of chaos, and will generally act to increase the confusion, he plainly is fond of his home and will tend to act to defend it.

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