Professor Binns

[katien0w]

No: HPFGUIDX 60264

<tish9774 at g...> wrote:
> 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.

katien0w (me):
A few things to add here.
If murdered people become ghosts, does that mean that Lily and James 
are ghost somewhere in the Wizarding World?

I, for some reason, always thought that unhappy people become 
ghosts: Moaning Myrtle was teased, Nearly-Headless Nick wasn't 
completely decapitated, although I'm not sure about the Bloody Baron 
right now.

If my theory is correct, then for James and Lily to *not* have 
returned as ghost, they must have been happy.  However, I am 
beginning to contradict myself because IIRC, James and Lily knew 
that Voldemort was after them, so how could they be happy? Knowing 
the Darkest Wizard for centuries(?) wants to kill you is not exactly 
going to make you happy.

Maybe, whether you become a ghost or not depends on your entire 
life, rather than you emotional state in death.  This would explain 
Myrtle being unhappy, and Lily and James being happy.  As I don't 
have the books with me, and I can't remember, I can only wonder why 
Nick wasn't happy, and also why he was semi-beheaded.  As for the 
the Bloody Baron and other ghosts, we have not yet heard enough 
about them to know why they are ghosts.

Also, ghosts did *not* come out of LV's wand in GoF, they were 
*echoes* (Quote Dumbledore IIRC).

Well instead of clarifying this, I seem to have confused myself even 
more :S

7days and 14 hours to go
I need the book now!!

katien0w