[HPforGrownups] Re: Predictions for Order of the Phoenix

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 25098

Someone said:

> > 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).

banjoken at optonline.net wrote:

> I don't really think this is being fair to poor old prof. Binns :)

I pontificate:

I still think Binns is there to plant a giant red herring, akin to the
"Snape wants the DADA job" rumor. In each and every book we are shown
goblins, or goblins are referred to, and they are very much harmless and
under control and in the background and no threat. We are being lulled,
by their being the subject of such a dry and boring teacher, a class
everyone blows off.

BUT, the goblins were quite dangerous in the past, if you actually
consider that these are rebellions and wars they're learning about. AND,
goblins now control the only wizard bank we know of.

I think the goblins have some major role to play. If Voldemort gets them
on his side, easy enough to do, as they seem to have the amorality of
the Swiss banks in the Nazi years (they did business with Sirius without
the blink of an eye or the reporting of so much as a whisper to the
MoM), and their prime motivation and a way to stir them up is money
(they hounded Bagman). So Voldemort could have the entire economy of the
wizarding world in his hand, causing chaos.

I think, however, being Voldemort, he'll underestimate the goblins like
Bagman did, like everyone in Binns' class or the wizard world does, and
they'll turn on him, and be instrumental in his downfall.

--Amanda, whose husband Jan actually thought of this some months ago


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