Harry Potter: Ranking Every Hogwarts Teacher From Worst To Best

15. Cuthbert Binns (History Of Magic)

Professor Binns is the most boring teacher at Hogwarts, and he also happens to be a ghost. Every lesson – without fail – he floats into the classroom and drones on about magical history.

Only Hermione can concentrate during his monotonous lectures. Harry and Ron, meanwhile, tend to drift off into space or play hangman whenever they’re supposed to be listening.

Professor Binns is also the only teacher who physically appears in the books but not the movies. Yet he’s so dull that fans of the book have never really complained about his absence.

Looking back, Rowling missed an opportunity with this character. Learning more about the history of her fantastical setting could have been fascinating. Instead, we have to look to Pottermore (now the wizardingworld.com) if we want to dig into the past of her beautiful world.