CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 6: Talons and Tea Leaves

[Joey Smiley]

No: HPFGUIDX 189550

Pippin wrote: 
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> Binns, Lockhart and Trelawney  share a similar but more egotistical fault: they're all more interested in showing off what they know (or pretend to know) than in actually teaching. 
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Joey:

I certainly agree with your point in the case of Lockhart and Trelawney but Binns seems to be a different type. 

I don't think he wanted to show off or pretend to know. In fact, I wonder if he *wanted* to do anything at all. :-) He seems to be totatlly amazed, as per Harry at least, to have many students listening to him. The only interaction he had with the students, at least with Harry's batch, was when the CoS mystery gripped Hogwarts. Even during that discussion, he seems to be more concerned about sticking to facts stated in history books than anything else. 

He does not mean to teach though, I agree. He doesn't seem to have any goal at all, actually. :-) He is *quite* poor in networking with people and he seems to me as a person who would do better in a research environment working as an absolutely solitary researcher. :-)

Cheers,
~Joey :-)