[HPforGrownups] Re: Why is PROFESSOR Binns a ghost?

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 54304

In a message dated 3/25/2003 10:11:55 AM Central Standard Time, 
dfrankiswork at netscape.net writes:

> Thus it is his business to 
> tell Hogwarts students about the past and its effects on them.
> 
> That is a role that he singularly fails to fulfill.  He has plenty 
> to say about Goblin rebellions and the like, but he is silent on 
> crucial historical issues.  How did Voldemort rise to power?  What 
> were the effects on WW society of his attempts to take over?  How is 
> the MOM shaped by efforts to resist him? What was 
> 

Or maybe he's trying to teach them how the history in the distant past is 
connected to the current or more recent history.


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