[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin's first class

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 29210

Ev vy wrote:

> But in CoS Professor Binns confuses the names of the students. Even though
> he should be able to read the name tags (theoretically, at least; I mean
> there is nothing indicating that the ghosts can't see in the usual meaning
> of the word, or if they have another way of seeing; or am I wrong?). Binns
> names Hermione: Miss Grant, Seamus: O'Flaherty and Parvati Patil: Miss
> Pennyfeather (CoS, Eng edition, pp.113-115) I suppose that would have
> something to do with a stereotype of a history teacher who remembers
> everything concerning history but isn't able to memeorize his/her students'
> names. But the students should be carrying name tags. So, why does Binns
> confuse the names?

[Even assuming the name tags were visible outside of the
clothing]...

Maybe he's nearsighted?  He was pretty old when he became a
ghost, and his eyesight may have been going.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>