Professor Binns

[tish]

No: HPFGUIDX 60259

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Patricia Bullington-McGuire 
<patricia at o...> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 Kadoo96801 at a... wrote:
> 
> > Now I have doubt that Binns actually died in the staff room fire!

> 
Patricia:
> My impression was that Binns died *in front of* the staff room 
fire, not
> *in* a fire.  I pictured him nodding off in a big upholstered arm 
chair,
> positioned near enough to the fireplace to get pleasantly warm but 
not
> burned, and then dying peacefully in his sleep.  Could you explain 
what
> makes you think he was burned to death?  I don't have the book in 
front of
> me, but I don't remember anything like that.



Can't agree more!  I also thought of Binns falling asleep in a big 
arm chair and never waking up.  I NEVER got the impression that he 
died IN the fire.  The book reads that "He was very old indeed when 
he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up the 
next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him."

My *theory* as to why some people become ghosts was sent down the 
toilet with Binns.  I thought that maybe people who were murdered 
(Moaning Myrtle, Nearly-Headless Nick, Bloody Baron) were able to 
come back as ghosts.  That is why everyone was able to come out of 
LV's wand in GoF.

Just a thought!
Tish