Predictions for Order of the Phoenix

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., A.E.B.Bevan at o... wrote:
> > "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
 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.  <snip> 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.  
> 
> --Barb
	Binns, I agree, is mostly there as a send-up of the kind of 
teacher who can make an absolutely fascinating subject deadly dull. But 
I think you are being a little harder on him than neccessary. Even 
Myrtle had no idea where the chamber was, despite  the fact that Ginny 
and the basilisk had been going in and out of her bathroom for months. 
The chamber must be impervious and undetectable to ghosts and House 
Elves, though not, fortunately, Phoenixes.
	As for Binns's statements to the class, perhaps he, like Harry,  
said nothing about the earlier incident  in order to protect Hagrid. I 
doubt he believed Hagrid and his monster had anything to do with the 
Chamber. Probably once Hagrid's monster was  implicated, Binns  and 
most of the other adults around at the time decided the whole heir of 
Slytherin business had been a nonsensical rumour, spread by mischief-
making students who wrote things like "Enemies of the Heir beware!" on 
the walls. 

Pippin