[HPforGrownups] Why so many unpopular teachers at Hogwarts?

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 32939

jenny_ravenclaw wrote:

> Binns I imagine, has been at Hogwarts for a veeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy long
> time.  He may not be interesting, but he gets the facts out that his
> students need to know.  He's also dead now, but when he first started
> teaching, he may have had more energy.  :-)

The problem with Binns is that he seems to be fixated on the
Goblin Rebellions to the exclusion of everything else that his
students might need to know.  Of course, that may be another
effect of being a ghost!  Ghost stories in general (either
avowedly fictional or reported as true) seem to imply that ghosts
are given to repetitive behavior.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>