A quick note about ratings: As of now the fics are rated T, but I put M as the rating because I'm not sure what I will be writing in the future and I want to be on the safe side. Just giving you guys a heads up in case you don't want to read possibly M rated drabbles in the future.

A/N

I know that I started a fic a while ago about RotBTD, and don't get me wrong, I intend to continue that at some point, but I've been rather busy with school and stuff, and now I'm on a plane and don't have access to the google doc with that fic on it, and I've been reading a lot of HP stuff lately, especially Colubrina's rebuilding story (I'm not done with it yet because it's so long) I HIGHLY recommend to anyone who is into Dramione, it's linked from my favorites, so I've decided to start another fic related to HP. As of now I don't really have any plans for what I want to write about, I'm just going to do a series of short drabbles and/or ficlets so that I don't run into the problem of not updating for a long time like happened with my last fic. Here goes nothing….

Hermione sat in the back of the classroom furiously taking notes on Professor Binn's lecture, although she was the only one who was paying attention… it was a rather boring class after all.

"So the Goblins fought their wars to gain recognition on the Wizarding World and that is why we trust them with out money in Gringotts…"

And the next thing she knew he was gone. Just like that. Disappeared. Not even a puff of smoke or anything. And in the middle of lesson too. For a few moments, none of the other students seemed to notice that he was missing, and Hermione thought she might be seeing things save for a few Ravenclaws. Hermione ran through all the possibilities of what could have happened in her mind.

Had he inadvertently gone invisible? No, if that was the case they would still be able to hear him….

Walked through the wall? Out of the question he would have realized and come back by now, he wasn't that off.

She poked Ron, who was sitting next to her in the arm. "Psst!"

Ron turned his head, and then looked up at the front of the room. "Huh? Binns… he's… gone! Great news, Harry, what great news!" He crumpled up the paper he and Harry had been using to play hangman and send notes to each other, threw it into the trash receptacle in the corner of the room, and stood up. "We've finally got rid of that oaf… his lessons… no offense…" he glanced at Hermione's pages of notes, "but he didn't really explain history in a very engaging way…"

"Binns is gone. That's nothing to celebrate about, Ron. I know he was a rather boring teacher who's methods didn't really captivate many of his students, but you have to understand that he died over one hundred years ago and has probably never updated his teaching methods since." Hermione countered.

Harry looked frantically throughout the room as many of the students were now noticing Binns's disappearance, "We should probably go get Mcgonigal or Dumbledore or something… this isn't supposed to happen to ghosts, right? Binns looked stable enough, I mean despite being a bad teacher and all… He was-is- a person-ghost- I mean…" Harry said, thinking practically.

"Yes, I think we should go get Dumbledor. This whole situation seems a bit fishy…" Hermione said gathering up her bag and standing up.

By now the whole class had noticed that Binns was missing, and some muggle born Huflepuff in the back of the room had turned on his speakers and *insert 90s song here* was heard throughout the room. A pair of Slytherin's were snagging in the back of the classroom, although it was unclear if they even knew Binns was gone…

"I agree, but what happened, that's not normal… something's up…" Harry said.

There was no explanation… not plausible on at least… what happened?"

"I can't think of anything that could have happened to make Binns disappear like that…" Hermione said eyeing the whole situation. "I think we should hurry up and go get someone…"

"What's the rush?" said Ron, his toe tapping in time to the music.

"Because," Hermione said glaring at him.

"Oh alright," Ron conceded.

The three friends hurried out of the room and began their way towards the Headmaster's office.

Hermione practically ran through the halls.

"Wait up!" called Ron.

All her muscles were tense and her stomach was clenched. All the possible worst scenarios were going through her head. What if Professor Binns was dead? Even more dead than he already was, gone forever… He was a rather boring teacher, but how would they be able to get a new teacher with such a short notice? And with the OWLs coming up so soon…

"Sherbet Lemon," Harry said once they got to the griffin grading Dumbledore's office. "Don't ask." he added as it slid to reveal a hidden staircase within.

They trooped up the stairs and Harry tentatively knocked on the door.

"Enter," Dumbledore said, and they pushed open the door to the headmaster's office.

"Headmaster, sorry to bother you, but we were in History of Magic class just now and professor Binns just disappeared into think air in the middle of a sentence…" Hermione rambled.

Dumbledore just sat there at his desk and nodded, as if he knew exactly what they were talking about. "Ah, ghosts. Curious the way some people come back from the dead when they are not meant to die."

"What happened to Binn?" Harry asked.

"Nothing, my dear children. He has reconciled his death. Realized that he died and that he had nothing more to do in the living world. I knew they day would come soon, although it would have been better if it hadn't happened in the middle of a lesson…"

"So Binns is in the afterlife?" Ron asked bewildered. "I always thought ghosts were used to live in this world forever…"

A/N

I know this may seem a bit unfinished, but I wanted to leave the trio right after they found out what happened to Binns, and I didn't know how else to wrap it up. I know that this is not at all on par with the level of my RotBTD fic, but I just wanted to get something on paper as a warm up. The next one will be much better. I have a lot of ideas for HP ficlets that I am going to write—I'm so exited to write some more and listen to some more Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey!