When was nearly headless nick beheaded

Most significantly, in the final pages of The Order of the Phoenix , a traumatized and grieving Harry turns to Mimsy-Porpington, hoping to discover a way to keep his dead friend and guardian Sirius Black alive. As ghosts. However, Black risked his life joyously and died laughing; he will not linger between death and life. Harry must live on without him. For J. Tags: s , , action figures , ballads , ghosts , gryffindor , harry potter , hogwarts school , j.

Your email address will not be published. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Nearly Headless Nick. History Talk 0. Categories Gryffindor Hogwarts Characters Ghosts. Universal Conquest Wiki. Nearly Headless Nick is the Gryffindor house ghost. Maybe it is because he is the house ghost of Gryffindor but whenever we see him throughout the series, he seems to really be there to help Harry exclusively.

Nearly Headless Nick is the nickname of the ghost of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, a wizard who died in a botched execution on October 31, He was hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe, but a half-inch of skin and sinew remained connecting his head to the rest of his body CS8.

He has also been known to show an affinity for rare students notably Fred and George Weasley , and is certainly afraid of the ghost of Slytherin, the Bloody Baron. Though the hat may have adapted the original criteria. As far as I know there are no examples in canon, but in DH one of the snatchers states that there are very few not zero Muggle-borns in Slytherin.

And so I was dead, but my faithful old head It never saw fit to desert me, It still lingers on, that's the end of my song, And now, please applaud, or you'll hurt me. The incident in which Malfoy casts a tooth-growing hex on Hermione GF14 may have evolved out of what happened to Lady Grieve in this cut song.

Tags: attacks death execution fear heads loyalty parties singing smoke song spirit. Nearly-Headless Nick. Death October 31st, Distinguishing Features A "dangerously wobbly head", a plumed hat, a tunic with a ruff.

Affiliations Hogwarts Ghosts. Related Entries. The Bloody Baron. The Grey Lady. The Fat Friar. Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore. Ghosts of gloomy nuns. Ghost of a knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead.