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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling.

Published: July 2, 1998

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Question:
How is it that Professor Binns could repeatedly state that the Chamber of Secrets was a myth ... when it is known that 50 years ago it was known to have been opened. Dumbledore was a Professor at the time.

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We don't know how many people were known to have information about the Chamber. Maybe Binns was out of the loop.
He is one who doesn't put much stock in stories or legend.

But Binns has been at Hogwarts forever ... even after dying. There is no way (in my opinion) that he could not have heard about the rumors or gossip or ??? while in the teachers staff room. Just seems very strange to me.

Don't get me wrong, I love the story. Nothing will change that. But every once in a while I pick up (what appears to me as) obvious errors.

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He may just be in denial of the event. Just as he seems to be in denial of his Death.
Which begs the question, why is he even a ghost?
Didn't Nick say that was a choice Wizards make upon dying?

ok - that makes a bit of sense. A History teacher who denies both history in the making and his own death. There are always sceptics within their own realm of expertise.

Kind of like the weather here ... no matter how many people actually saw, witnessed, or even video'd a tornado, unless a 'qualified person' actually visits the site, does whatever they do, it cannot and will not be confirmed.

I guess if Binns didn't see the monster, then it did not exist.
(none more blind than those who refuse to see)

But I'm a bit curious as to how he could ignore the death of a student. What could he have possibly chalked that up to?

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Since both he & Myrtle are ghosts, she may have asked him not to talk about it (you know how she gets).
Plus is sounds like there was an attempted cover-up about the Chamber both times. Only those with a need-to-know sort of thing.
The whole tornado thing, is best left discussed in the weather thread.

Since Binns can't keep the students names straight now, and didn't keep the "detail" of his own death in perspective, its easy for me to accept that he has just skipped over the details of The Chamber and Myrtle. Binns is very tunnel-visioned, along the lines of: if it wasn't written in a book by the time he died it doesn't exist.


That said, it still seems like a valid plot hole observation.

Indeed it does. There are many minor errors throughout the series.
I can live with it.

yup - I can live with the errors - if nothing else, it shows that a great magical witch/wizard book was written with 'muggle' error ... (LOL)


Good point Figgy ... Which makes me wonder, when did Binns become a ghost?
And it is very possible that he just didn't get the news.
Or, like Figgy said, it wasn't in a book for him to teach to the students.
I doubt, even as a ghost, he would have anything to do with Myrtle ... Binns sounds a bit stand-offish. I doubt he is a regular visitor with any of the Hogwarts ghosts.

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