Harry Potter · Character
Cuthbert Binns
Also known as Professor Binns
- Minor
- First seen · Book 2 · Ch. 8
His voice drones on like wind through forgotten attics, ancient and unyielding, pulling you into history's dusty grip. Those blinking eyes peer out from a shriveled face, amazed yet indifferent to the living world around him. There's a timeless weariness in his shuffle that makes eternity feel tediously eternal.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- ancient
- First appears
- Book 2 · Ch. 8
- Books
- 1
Professor Cuthbert Binns, the ghostly History of Magic teacher, drifts through Hogwarts' blackboard oblivious to his own death, delivering monotonous lectures on goblin rebellions to bored students like Harry, Ron, and Hermione. His single vivid moment comes in the Chamber of Secrets crisis when he unwittingly reveals the legend of the monster terrorizing the school. Forever trapped in his spectral routine, he embodies the unchanging drudgery of Hogwarts' past, untouched by the petrifications and basilisk horrors unfolding around him.
Description
An ancient shriveled ghost with translucent, parchment-thin skin stretched over a tortoise-like face, his blinking eyes peer out with perpetual mild amazement. Wispy strands of hair float ethereally around his domed head, and thin lips purse in a dry, wheezy expression. His shriveled form shuffles spectral notes in bony hands, clad in tattered professor's robes that billow faintly. A flat, droning presence that materializes through blackboards, he exudes the dusty monotony of centuries past.
Story so far
BOOK 2Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Appearances
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