Myrtle Warren

"D'you think I don't know what people call me behind my back? Fat Myrtle! Ugly Myrtle! Miserable, moaning, moping Myrtle!"

- Moaning Myrtle to Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Peeves

Moaning Myrtle is the ghost of a witch who haunts the second floor girl's bathroom (and occasionally other bathroom facilities) at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was a student at Hogwarts in the 1930s and 1940s. She was sorted into Ravenclaw house. Myrtle was killed by Slytherin's Basilisk in 1943 on the orders of Tom Marvolo Riddle who had opened the Chamber of Secrets and would later become Lord Voldemort.

Appearance
Myrtle is a squat ghost with lank hair, pimples, and thick glasses. She seldom smiles and takes great offense at the smallest excuses, crying rivers of tears and wailing.

School Years and Death
When Myrtle first went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry she was sorted into Ravenclaw but failed to make any friends and was constantly teased and bullied by her fellow students.

She died when the Chamber of Secrets was opened for the first time in 1943. She died while crying in the bathroom after Olive Hornby made fun of her glasses. It is implied that Myrtle was often bullied during her time at Hogwarts. The monster that killed her was Slytherin's Basilisk on the orders of Tom Marvolo Riddle. Her death was the murder that Tom used to make his first Horcrux: the diary.

1992-1993
Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger used Myrtle's bathroom in 1992 to brew Polyjuice Potion that was used to disguise Harry and Ron as Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle so that they could sneek into the Slytherin Dungeon to interrogate Draco Malfoy about the Chamber of Secrets.

in 1993 She helped Harry and Ron to find out about the monster inside the Chamber of Secrets. When Harry asked her about how she died, Myrtle was actually flattered, and acted as though she had never been asked this question before.

1995
In 1995 Myrtle helped Harry with his second task in the Triwizard Tournament. Though Cedric Diggory had told Harry to take a bath while thinking about it, and provided him with the password to the prefect's bathroom; it was Myrtle who told Harry how to solve the clue, by opening it underwater.

1997
"…he’s sensitive, people bully him, too, and he feels lonely and hasn’t got anybody to talk to, and he’s not afraid to show his feelings and cry!"

- Moaning Myrtle about Draco Malfoy

In 1997 Draco Malfoy confided in Moaning Myrtle about his assasination attempts of Albus Dumbledore.

Behind the scenes

 * Moaning Myrtle was portrayed by Shirley Henderson in the films Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
 * In one scene in Chamber of Secrets, Ron jokingly suggests that Tom Riddle earned his Special Award for Services to the School for killing Myrtle; this foreshadows the fact that Riddle did indeed kill her.
 * Hermione says Moaning Myrtle haunts the bathroom on the first floor. However, when Harry sees the writing on the wall outside her bathroom, he is on the second floor.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Notes and references
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