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At several points, ghosts are shown to be under the ministry’s control. But ghosts seem to care little about the law, and I doubt peeves would do it out of obedience. How does the ministry control ghosts? I am not asking how ghosts are punished, I am asking why ghosts are so easily controlled and ordered about, why don’t they refuse or run of? I repeat my earlier statement.

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    Peeves isn't strictly speaking a ghost.
    – Valorum
    Aug 27, 2019 at 7:19
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    "At several points, ghosts are shown to be under the ministry’s control." - Are they? Which points? I don't recall that.
    – Rand al'Thor ♦
    Aug 27, 2019 at 8:05
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    @Randal'Thor, there's the bit about Moaning Myrtle referenced in the first proposed duplicate. Can't recall anything else though.
    – Harry Johnston
    Aug 27, 2019 at 8:10
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    Moaning myrtle said the ministry made her stay at Hogwarts.
    – Samalot
    Aug 27, 2019 at 8:21
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    @moonCat93 Haunting Olive was the reason she became a ghost, and she would have stayed at Hogwarts to do that while Olive was at Hogwarts. However, Myrtle continued haunting her even after she'd left school, and the Ministry forced her to stop that and return to Hogwarts.
    – Anthony Grist
    Aug 27, 2019 at 21:49

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