Binny

“I’m worried about letting out too much magic at once,” Rigel said, “I don’t want to accidentally erase my fingers along with the stains.”
“It is not working like that,” Binny shook her head so hard her ears flapped like little wings, “If you is not having intent to vanish fingers, then fingers is staying where they are.”
“Sometimes my wand does things I don’t intend,” Rigel said, “I think it gets confused.”
“Young Sir’s wand isn’t being confused,” Binny said carefully, “Young Sir’s magic is being confused.”
Rigel glanced at the house-elf, “Why’s my magic confused, do you think?”
“Perhaps because Young Sir is confused about his magic, and his magic isn’t knowing how to please him, because Young Sir isn’t knowing what he is wanting?” Binny suggested tentatively.

**Binny** is a character in the *Rigel Black Chronicles*.

## Profile

### Appearance

* often wears a pink tea cozy and a necklace of champagne corks

### Skills

“It isn’t hurting you,” Binny admonished. “You is being like old wizard masters. Your magic is being like baby elf. It is being hurt and you is not noticing, because you is thinking you is knowing better.”
Rigel winced. “Is that why the magic is angry with me? I thought it didn’t like being kept under control. Am I really hurting it? Can magic feel things like that?”
“I is not knowing,” Binny said slowly. “But I is knowing this : wizards is not being given magic they is not being able to control. Nature is knowing what is best. You is meant to be trusting nature, trusting your magic, and trusting yourself. If you is not trusting it, it is not trusting you.”

* appears to be able to tell if students are sincere or if they're lying
* is able to perform house elf magic and has an intuitive understanding of magic.
* knows French

## History

### 1991-1992 School Year

Binny greets Rigel upon her arrival in the kitchens and assists Rigel with finding clothes that are in the "lost and found" bin so that she can wear disguises to the library. She also assists her with understanding her magic better later in the year.

Over the course of the year, Binny provides Rigel with mice for finding a snake for Alesana Selwyn and Edmund Rookwood's creature game, and then for finding Treeslider.

She helps Rigel when she is brewing potions for the Sleeping Sickness by making sure she eats lunch. After the sickness is cured, she meets Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy when Rigel introduces them to the kitchens

### 1992-1993 School Year

After the welcome feast, Rigel immediately seeks out Binny to give Adrian Pucey's snake a mouse. The next morning, she asks her to serve her meat this year when she comes to the kitchens. Rigel then spends almost every lunch in the kitchens and learns French from Binny.

Rigel discovers that Binny spends the summers taking care of unicorns at Madame Touraine's stables.

Later in the year, Draco has lunch with Rigel and her, and Binny remembers to serve Harry something vegetarian as Rigel wants to keep her diet a secret. They also speak English

When another student is petrified, Rigel runs to the kitchens to let Binny know. She pops to fetch the headmaster and returns with him, very disoriented, two seconds later.

### 1993-1994 School Year

Binny works at Madame Touraine's over the summer again, where there were five new foals.

Binny speaks to Rigel in French in front of Draco Malfoy to his shock.

In the first week of the third year, Draco and Rigel fetch food from the kitchens so that Pansy Parkinson can have something to eat when she was too worried to eat because Marcus Flint was injured.

Rigel asks Binny to spell her suppressor ring to be immovable except by removing it herself. She also constantly visits the kitchens to supplement her diet from cramming extra hours (and sometimes more than one day) so that she can eat enough.

When Rigel needs to brew a shaped imbuing potion for Professor Severus Snape and the Department of Mysteries, Binny reveals to her the existence of the Room of Requirement.

During the folded days, the only person Rigel talks to is Binny.

Binny raids the Yule supplies to provide glitter for a prank.

Binny mentions Dobby (without calling him by name).

### 1994-1995 School Year

She is promoted over the summer to head stable elf.

Before the first task of the tournament, Rigel gets food from the kitchen "just in case", and Binny warns her to be careful. Binny becomes slightly upset when Rigel mentions the dragon, but she reassures her by saying she didn't hear about the dragon from a house elf.

Binny complains about Hermione Granger leaving hats and scarves around.

Binny gives Rigel a strong cup of tea in the middle of the night when Archie and Hermione call regarding fade research.

The entirety of the "illegal" Dueling Club heads down to the kitchens before the final task to help Rigel take her mind off the tasks. Binny provides food and company for them all.

## Relationships

### Harry Potter

She is friend with her and teaches her French during lunchtime.

## Trivia

* One house-elf saying Binny uses is "Not so very hard, it is being easier than flying."

## Appearances

**Appearances**
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 12
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 17
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 18
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 20 (*mentioned*)
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 5 (*mentioned*)
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 7
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 8 (*mentioned*)
 * The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 1 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 6
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 7
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 8 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 9 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 12 (*mentioned*)
* The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 13 (*mentioned*)
 * The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 7 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 8
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 9
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 11 (*mentioned*)
* The Futile Facade: Chapter 12 (*mentioned*)
 * The Malignant Masquerade: Chapter 2 (*mentioned*)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 10
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
3. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 18
4. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19
5. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 21
6. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 7
7. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 11
8. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 6
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 7
10. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 9
11. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 14
12. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 6
13. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 8
14. ↑ The Futile Facade: Chapter 12
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Futile Facade: Chapter 13