Olive Hornby

""Nobody missed me even when I was alive. Took them hours to find my body- I know, I was sitting there waiting for them. Olive Hornby came into the bathroom- 'Are you in here again, sulking Myrtle?, she said, 'because Professor Dippet asked me to look for you-' And then she saw my body...ooooh, she didn't forget that until her dying day, I'm sure of that..."

- Moaning Myrtle to Harry Potter


 * Olive Hornby is the girl that teased Moaning Myrtle about her glasses, the reason she was in the bathroom the night of her death. She was the first to see Myrtle's body in the bathroom, and Myrtle haunted her for a long time.  After Moaning Myrtle interrupted her brother's wedding, she went to the Ministry of Magic to get rid of the ghost. Then Moaning Myrtle went back to her toilet at Hogwarts.

Etymology

 * The olive branch to the anicent Greeks, was sacred to Athena and was a sign of peace. Olive was deprived of peace while being haunted by Moaning Myrtle. Her last name, "Hornby" is an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements horn ‘horn’ + boði ‘messenger’.  Olive was most likely the first to send the message about Myrtle's death, hence her name.

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 (mentioned only)