History at Hogwarts and the Founding Four

[Chys Sage Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 126139


 "nifer819" <nifer819 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Is there any evidence to indicate how old Professor Binns is?  We 
> know from Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party in CS that he died 
> 500 years ago.  Is it possible that Professor Binns is as old if 
not 
> older than Nick?  Could it be that the sorting hat is not the only 
> one with first hand, err... first hat, knowledge of what happened 
at 
> Hogwarts at the time of the Founding Four's split?


Chys:
I thought it was 500 years before that, but, I don't know the time 
line. It was mentioned how long ago that happened in the book, right?


Chys