Deathday Party

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Deathday Party
Event information
Location	Cold, damp and dark places. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party was held in a Dungeon at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Date(s)	Date of Death of the Ghost in question. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party was held on October 31st, 1992.
Participant(s)	Who the ghost intends to invite. At Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party, the Bloody Baron, the Fat Friar, Moaning Myrtle, Peeves, the Wailing Widow from Kent, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, among others, attended the party.
Description	Party held to remembering the death of said ghost.
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

A Deathday Party is a celebration thrown by ghosts to commemorate the day they died. What seems to be a typical Deathday Party entails a candlelit dinner of rancid, moulded food, the smell of which would gag a normal living creature. The reason for this is apparently the claim that a ghost can "almost taste" seriously spoiled food.

Deathday Parties seem to the living to be rather gloomy affairs. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger attended Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party in 1992^[1]. Sir Nicolas was deeply touched that the three students made an appearance.

The only people normally invited to a Deathday Party are no longer living, as noted once by Hermione Granger.

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