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. Related: Harry Potter: What Are Voldemort's 7 Horcruxes - and How Were They Destroyed?
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. She was so young and hadn't had the chance to experience much of life.
It has been out of order ever since a student named Myrtle was killed there. Myrtle has haunted the bathroom ever since the Ministry of Magic stopped her from haunting Olive Hornby who had been teasing Myrtle just before her death, leading it to be a place most students do not want to enter.
In Goblet of Fire, when Harry's in the prefects bathroom to figure out the egg, we see Moaning Myrtle in the room trying to help, but mostly flirt with Harry.
Myrtle Had No Friends At Hogwarts
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.
circa 1928-1929 – 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. She was killed in 1943 by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, under Lord Voldemort's (Tom Riddle) orders.
Discovered in chapter 16, The Chamber of Secrets
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.
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.
At that time, he had been turned into a Death Eater and was tasked with killing Dumbledore on behalf of Voldemort. In a moment of transparency, Draco breaks down in the bathroom and explains the situation to Myrtle, who listens intently. Afterward, the two become good friends.
Henderson was born November 24, 1965, making her 37 when she played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost of 14-year-old Myrtle Warren) in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (and, therefore, 40, when she reprised the role in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire").
Apparently no one was interested enough to ask her, not even Dumbledore, who thought Hagrid was innocent. They were interested, however, in forbidding her ghost to haunt Olive Hornby, the witch who had made her life so miserable that she was crying in the bathroom when the Basilisk got her.
During his sixth year, Harry discovers that he finds Ginny to be a source of constant hilarity. When he is sixteen, Harry develops feelings for Ginny, but it is not her physical attributes that he spends the bulk of his time thinking about; rather, it is her humour.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle - IMDb.
No, Moaning Myrtle never figured out who Tom Marvolo Riddle was after she died. Yes, she loves to be 'up-to-date' with everything and is 'up-to-date' with everything, but no, she wouldn't have figured who Tom really was. To get I am Lord Voldemort from Tom Marvolo Riddle is extremely hard.
The most likely reason why Lord Voldemort's nose disappeared and he devolved into such an evil-looking creature is that as he dabbled deeper into the Dark Arts, his appearance gradually became as distorted as what remained of his twisted soul.
Specifically, Draco was jealous of Harry. It was easy to miss because Draco didn't often show his emotions, modelling himself on his cold, confident, calculating father, but J.K. Rowling has confirmed that a lot of his enmity towards Harry stemmed from envy.
In a recent interview, J.K. Rowling said that Draco had strong positive feelings for Hermoine, and would always have "lingering" feelings. However, due to his upbringing, he was unable to act on those feelings, and instead made fun of her, gaining some attention that way.
June 13, 1942: Tom Riddle murders Myrtle Warren (a.k.a. Moaning Myrtle) in the first-floor girls' bathroom at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, sending a piece of his soul into his diary. It becomes his first Horcrux.
But when they went to Hogwarts, everything changed. The pair were parted when the Sorting Hat placed Severus in Slytherin and Lily in Gryffindor, and while Lily thrived in her new, magical life, Snape was essentially placed in close quarters with the likes of Lucius Malfoy, Avery and Mulciber.
During his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry was nice to Myrtle, so she developed a crush on him. Harry wasn't exactly known to stay out of life-threatening trouble, so Myrtle offered to share her toilet with him if the event that he died.
Still, “Potter” fans are reading it closely and some are surprised to learn that the full name of the character Moaning Myrtle is actually Myrtle Elizabeth Warren.
Myrtle is a self-confessed pervert. She's at least 50 years old, but points out that in the movie, she tried to look at Cedric Diggory's private parts.
Moaning Myrtle's full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren.
So Moaning Myrtle was killed because she locked eyes with the Basilisk. Moaning Myrtle also saw the Basilisk through something else, just like the others who were petrified. Myrtle had glasses. Everyone saw it through something else.