Professor Binns

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No: HPFGUIDX 80578

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly" <keltobin at y...> wrote:

> I remember thinking it very strange when Nick asserted that becoming 
> a ghost was a choice.  He mentions "choice" twice in his conversation 
> with Harry in OoTP (US ed. p.861).  Yet, I immediately thought of 
> Prof. Binns.  To me it doesn't sound like he had or made any choice 
> at all when he became a ghost.  He just stood up one day and went to 
> class and left his body behind.


Willfull blindness is a choice.  If you refuse to see reason - ie 
that you are hovering over your own body -, then you've made a 
choice.  You've refused to let that tiny little fact keep you from 
your appointments.  

If you remain ignorant our of fear or just sheer willfullness that is 
a part of free will.  

Call it soft determinism if you will...  But it is the reason why 
willfull blindness is considered equivalant to intent in many western 
legal systems.  

Golly