Post by Professor Cuthbert Binns on Dec 4, 2010 15:40:53 GMT -5
INTRODUCTION
Group #1: Gryffindor Fourth and Fifth Years
Group #2: Slytherin Fourth and Fifth Years
Discussion: The Third Troll War
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Professor Binns floated through the blackboard with the same enthusiasm that he did every other lesson - or lack thereof. He'd honestly lost the will to teach this class years and years ago when it became evident that the students were more intent on catching up on sleep in his lessons or working on their art rather than listen to him, which had led to his lectures to become even more monotonous and - for lack of a better word - boring. It wasn't like he could force them to pay attention to him. No one was going to respect the word of a ghost (except for The Bloody Baron, but that was because he was intimidating even in his see-through, flimsy state). Hell, if he tried to exercise authority over a student, they could easily roll their eyes and proceed to walk right through him - literally, too. So he'd rather skip all of that and let the children do whatever they wanted to do. Especially the younger ones, like this class, who were forced to take History of Magic. It would all come back and bite them in the butt when most of them failed their OWLs. Although, really, all History of Magic needed was a bit of discipline and a lot of learning. Or a photographic memory. Otherwise, they were on their own. Binns was too bloody old and tired (no pun intended, but ghosts could feel old and tired after a few hundred years, y'know?) to care about students that didn't care about his subject.
And thus he started the lesson in his usual droning tone.
