Professor Binns

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 80016

Out of curiosity, but does anyone know why Dumbledore keeps Professor 
Binns around? I mean of all the bad professors(Snape, Trelawney and 
Binns) he is the least useful of the bunch while Snape is at least a 
competent and decent potions brewer, gives the kids exposure to a 
variety of personalities and is seemingly a loyal Dumbledore 
supporter who provides intelligence on Voldemort to Dumbledore while 
Trelawney through the use of her many predication makes the kids 
distrust things such as fate and destiny and is also sheltered by 
Dumbledore providing for him the occasional prophecy. However why 
does he have Binns around. The guy bores the students out of their 
skulls and usually fails to convey any of his knowledge to the 
students especially seeing how the information like the Goblin 
Rebellions and how the wizard world got started is quite important in 
figuring out why many of the non-human and half-human species act as 
they do.