[HPforGrownups] Professor Binns

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 57576

From: <SnapesSlytherin at aol.com>


> 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.
>
SnapesSlytherin wrote:

> 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!

I was thinking that Binns was asleep, but perhaps still saw the green light.
Since he was asleep when he was murdered, when he got up the next morning
(as a ghost), he just figured he dreamed the green light and maybe even
heard a voice.  I think adding a Memory Charm into the mix is just a little
much.

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