Good point. While one can argue that the reason for that is the filmmakers didn’t want the parents to be convinced by their kids and consequently they would probably go and help them fight the Sanderson sisters and make things somewhat easier for Max, Alison and Dani (resulting in a different movie), I believe Binx understandably got frightened/shy when he was put on the spot like that.
Since he was never put in this type of situation before (or who knows, maybe he was), his first instinct was to simply say nothing. It might’ve been centuries since the Sanderson sisters and Witchcraft ran amok in Salem, but considering this town very much still believed in the supernatural, I’m certain Binx knew that if he were to start talking to adults who had a hard enough time believing what their kids were telling them, then things could’ve gotten out of control. Really, who knows how Dani’s parents would have reacted? Or anyone else at that party, for that matter. I mean even if the adults saw Binx as harmless once he started talking (it’s not like he could be killed anyway), Binx had to know that talking to Dani & Max’s parents wasn’t going to solve anything.
Of course the only reason Binx talked to Max in the first place, is because he had no other choice — the possibility of him being able to talk again once the black flame candle was lit notwithstanding. Sht got real!
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