Hiria said "Hunpo is a spirit, that resides in Borley Mansion. You see, Hunpo translates from Maori to English as "Hidden Darkness". You see, it doesn't take to kindly to Pakeha - Non Maori, European, that sort of thing, or Kiritea - the white skinned people. Because, if you know some history of new zealand, the British People- a good example of Pakeha, thought they had "discovered new zealand" and discovered there were people already on the land, they tried to convert them to the english ways, but sometimes in doing so, when people refused to, they took to killing them. There's this thing called the Treaty of Waitangi, which I can't go into too much detail as it takes a long time. But, that's what happened to the Hunapo's people. They were murdered by the Kiritea. And the house is it's people's burial ground, so it thinks people are disrespecting his people if they just stroll in, sort of thing. But, I was thinking since I'm Maori, well half anyway, and I know things that are signs of respect,and I have a ponamu - greenstone, which is considered one of New Zealand's taonga's- treasures, so I was thinking it might be more kindly towards me. I was thinking to go there to tell it not to harm my friends here at Hogwarts." Hiria finsihed and had to take several large breaths as she had been speaking for a long time.
