[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Professor Binns

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 60197

>> PoPo responded:
>
> > Now I have doubt that Binns actually died in the staff room fire!

> Now Marie:
>
> I think you misunderstood Kelly a bit.  Professor Binns was old, and
> he fell asleep in the staff room.  (There was presumably a fire going
> in the fireplace, but the room didn't catch fire).  When he went to
> teach the next morning, he was a ghost, and so everyone assumes he
> died of natural causes -- perhaps just old age -- in his sleep.  In
> that case, he wouldn't have any sort of markings, so it's sort of
> hard to distinguish natural death from AK.
>
Kelly again:

Yes, I meant he fell asleep in FRONT of the fire, not that he burned to
death.  My theory is that a young Tom Riddle tested out AK on an old and
sleeping Professor Binns.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova