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It's terrible what happened to Myrtle.

Indeed! If only the school hadn't allowed her in, she'd be just fine.

Unfortunately that is the price she paid.

All we can hope for is that they'll eventually learn.

I don't see that happening soon.

That's the real shame, then. Given every opportunity, and not taking it.

I can understand why they would be confused.

Myrtle? Isn't she the ghost in one of the bathrooms or something? Moaning Myrtle?

Is that what she becomes? How dreadful.

What... she... becomes?

Oh... you're one of those... people from the past.

Indeed I am. I saw her body carried out of the castle.

That's depressing. But she stayed all those years? Huh. Wonder why.

Distressed spirits often do not want to move on.

Wonder what happened at Hogwarts that made her so... distressed and all, y'know?

She was killed by the beast within the Chamber of Secrets.

Or so they say.

Yes, but that's a load of rubbish, innit?

...Would it be crass of me to ask what in fact did happen to Myrtle?

She was killed by something.

Something like a falling rock or something like a monster?

Yes, a monster.