Binns (was: Re: Perkins again-a minor(?) point)

[justcarol67]

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Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
This is just a quick side note, but it occurs to me that Binns may
be the only being in the whole WW who doesn't know who Harry Potter is!

Eustace_Scrubb responded: 
Possibly (I'm not sure we have any evidence that the Fat Friar or
Bloody Baron know who HP is--but Binns is the only one Harry has
encountered in the books who might not know).  Or does Binns just
think it was James and Lily Perkins who were killed by LV?  In other
words, we know he's muddled, it's just not clear in what way.
 
Carol responds:
Of course we don't get much input from the ghosts other than Nearly
Headless Nick, but it's possible that, being dead, most of them don't
take a great deal of interest in what's going on outside the little
world of Hogwarts, where they chose to remain rather than going on to
whatever awaits the "properly dead" who don't come back. Being already
dead, they can't be killed again, whatever happens to the other
characters (which is not to say that NHN and Myrtle and a few other
ghosts won't play a role of some sort in the war to come).

As for Professor Binns, who apparently was just as obsessed with the
past and oblivious to the present while he was alive as he is now, the
Voldemort wars may be outside the scope of his expertise, which I'm
guessing ends somewhere between the last goblin war and his own death.
If he died before VW1, or for that matter before DD's defeat of
Grindelwald, he may have little interest in modern history and only
the foggiest knowledge of Voldemort and the Boy Who Lived.

Just my thoughts, not a theory worth defending!

Carol, who wonders how any Hogwarts student can pass the History of
Magic O.W.L. if all they learn about is the goblin wars