Predictions for Order of the Phoenix

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25044

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A.E.B.Bevan at o... wrote:
> "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> > My predictions...
> 
> I think ..the OoP is an ancient  secret society that fights dark 
> wizards.  [snip] I don't think  that Dumbledore is 
> a member of the OoP, but someone else at Hogwarts  is 
> 
> A slightly lighthearted reaction - maybe this is where a certain 
> History of Magic techer comes into his own even though dead... 
> Either by giving the clues to the nature and history of the Order 
> or even being a survivor of the Order (which is why perhapos he is 
> kept on the rolls?)

I find this highly doubtful.  Frankly, Binns really annoys me.  
Dumbledore is really giving this class short shrift to have it taught 
by an instructor who seems to cover nothing that happened more 
recently than several hundred years earlier (focusing mostly on 
Goblin rebellions).  He was very adamant about not wanting to give 
any information to the students about the Chamber of Secrets, even to 
denying its existence.  As a ghost, he would be able to go anywhere 
in the school with no physical barriers to him, and he could easily 
have ascertained its location and contents.  

He reminds me mostly of a ghostly version of Fudge, wanting 
everything to be status quo. (He didn't change his daily routine even 
when he died!)  The revolving-door DADA teachers are better than 
Binns!  (Even Lockhart.)  I hope Dumbledore gets a human in there to 
teach soon.  A ghost teacher floating through the walls is only 
interesting or amusing for about the thirty seconds it takes for that 
to happen.

--Barb