Binns and the COS (was Re: Professor Binns_

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 57662

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> 
> Binns is useless for relating this information, although it is his 
> job.  The other characters have to stumble through to it themselves, 
> and it is little surprise that, compared to the strong authorial 
> voice, the series' official internal storyteller is reduced to 
> ghostly status.

Two recent threads have concerned: (1) the death of Professor Binns,
and  (2) the staff's apparent ignorance of the entrance to the CoS. 
The two together triggered a new (to me) question.

Why doesn't Binns believe in the CoS?

IIRC, Binns is hounded by his students to tell more about the CoS, and
while he is eventually willing to recount the legend, he dismisses it
as something other than solid historical fact.  But certainly
Dumbledore and McGonagall believe in the existence of the CoS, and my
sense is that several of the other professors do, too.  So why not Binns?

Ersatz Harry, who keeps on thinking he saw "Mimble Wimble" somewhere
in post-PS/SS canon but whose mind is probably just contaminated by
the CoS computer game