[HPforGrownups] Professor Binns

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No: HPFGUIDX 57575

In a message dated 5/10/03 10:07:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dorigen at hotmail.com writes:
> If Binns died of a curse from Tom Riddle, and is therefore a ghost, then a) 
> why hasn't he mentioned it to at least Dumbledore, and b) what is the 
> unfinished business that keeps him here (clearly it isn't teaching ...)?  
> The answer to both questions may be that Tom Riddle also cast a powerful 
> Memory Charm on Professor Binns. This would explain a) why he hasn't told 
> the world what happened to him, b) why he can remember every word of his 
> subject but has trouble remembering names and c) why he is still here 
> instead of wherever ghosts go; he is aware (consciously or otherwise) that 
> there's something he needs to deal with but doesn't know what it is.

Well...wasn't the idea that Professor Binns was asleep?  If Binns was asleep, 
he wouldn't have known that Riddle AKed him.  I think he doesn't remember 
students' names because he doesn't want to.  I had a teacher in eighth grade 
who didn't know any of our names - he just called us "Harry" and "Sally".  He 
used to say that "You should all be named Harry and Sally with a number."  
*shrugs* There are some people who just don't feel the need to know names.  
The thing that's keeping him here could be that he doesn't know how he 
*really* died - he might not know that that is how he died.
I think I like this idea Kelly.  Good one!

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