Henderson was born November 24, 1965, making her 37 when she played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost of 14-year-old Myrtle Warren) in "
She was just 14 when she died.
Myrtle's life was cut shockingly short when she was killed by the Basilisk at Tom Riddle's command. It's not surprising to me that she stayed on as a ghost.
Myrtle (b. 1929 – 13 June, 1943), more commonly known as "Moaning Myrtle", was a Muggle-born witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1940 – 1943 and was sorted into Ravenclaw house. She was killed in 1943 by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, under Lord Voldemort's (Tom Riddle) orders.
Being 5' 0½" (1.54 m) and 37 years old when she first played Moaning Myrtle, she is the oldest actress to play a teenage Hogwarts student in the Harry Potter films.
Myrtle is shown to have a crush on Harry throughout the series. In the Goblet of Fire film, the bathroom scene shows her acting sexually towards Harry. Myrtle was also the first person to be killed by Lord Voldemort.
In an unusual storyline from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Draco forms a friendship with Moaning Myrtle, a ghost who haunts the Hogwarts bathrooms.
Moaning Myrtle Doesn't Look Like A Child
That's because Henderson was 36 years of age when she first played Myrtle, as the filmmakers ultimately decided to cast an older actress in the part to make their natural ageing seem less noticeable.
When Harry asks her how she died, Myrtle says she was crying in the bathroom, heard a boy's voice and saw a pair of large yellow eyes. She died instantly, and returned to haunt Olive Hornby, a girl who used to tease her.
The explanation is very simple - Harry has a very strong sexual desire for Ginny. He has no such feelings for Hermione. Sex is a fundamental aspect of adult relations. Sex is, in fact, the characteristic that defines the difference between a platonic relationship and a romantic one.
After opening the Chamber of Secrets, he used the Basilisk to kill Myrtle Warren, providing the murder necessary to craft a Horcrux. Voldemort entrusted his diary to Lucius Malfoy, who later seized the opportunity to smuggle it back into Hogwarts.
J.K. Rowling, best-selling British author, inadvertently entered the political fray Monday by revealing the full name of a beloved character in the Harry Potter series, Moaning Myrtle. “Moaning Myrtle's full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren,” Rowling tweeted.
Chamber of SecretsEdit. We meet Myrtle at Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday party. She seems a bit depressed, as many ghosts do; but Peeves takes the opportunity to mock her to the point that she runs off, crying. Apparently as she returns to her bathroom, she turns on all the taps.
The second-floor girls' lavatory, more commonly known as Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom, was situated on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle, just above the Great Hall. It had been out of order ever since a student named Myrtle Warren was killed there.
Moaning Myrtle
Born in the late 1920s to Muggle parents, Myrtle Warren started her Hogwarts life in the early 1940s, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw. She had no friends, and was bullied relentlessly because of her glasses and acne.
Myrtle is also pretty disliked due to her tendency to spy on people while they're in the lavatory, including Cedric Diggory in the bath. Bathrooms are supposed to be safe spaces for a moment of privacy, even from ghouls like Myrtle.
“Harry was constantly crushing on Draco. He just couldn't hide it.” In the books and movies, Harry and Draco are constantly at each other's throats, given that Draco's parents are Voldemort supporters and the evil wizard killed Harry's parents.
Well, in case it skipped your mind, Harry and Hermione shared a kiss – not cause they were in love or dating each other but a manifestation of a Horcrux, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really,” Rowling says in the interview. “For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.”
Tom Riddle didn't "accidentally" kill Myrtle—he MURDERED her. He sicced the Basilisk on her because she was muggleborn. Tom never felt bad about murdering anyone.
Myrtle relished her role as the bearer of bad news – but her tendency to talk a lot inadvertently helped solve a few mysteries. Most importantly, reflecting on her own dramatic death helped to save another student's life in Chamber of Secrets.
The basilisk is alleged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice, which was hatched from a cockerel's "egg" incubated by a serpent or toad). In Medieval Europe, the description of the creature began taking on features from cockerels.
Moaning Myrtle is the ghost of a Ravenclaw student who was killed by the Slytherin Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets in 1943. She likes to moan and cry and wallow in self-pity in the girls' bathroom on the second floor, though she does occasionally visit the boys' bathroom.
Myrtle ran into the bathroom to hide from Olive Hornby because she was teasing her about her glasses. She was inside one of the cubicles when she heard someone (the basilisk) come in. She died by looking directly into the basilisks eyes in the bathroom on June 13, 1943.
When Myrtle told the Golden Trio about her death, she revealed she had been crying in the bathroom after students picked on her over her glasses. She mentioned this kind of bullying frequently, and her sensitivity to insult in her death reveals just how much she was ridiculed in life.