[HPforGrownups] More Snape! Snape - Filch relationship (not the slashy POV <G>)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 17461

> But in PS, when Snape gets hurt, he goes to Filch who takes care
> for the Fluffy-bitten leg. So Severus surely had to tell him what 
> *exactly* he was doing, or not? Why? Because he trusts Filch? Or 
> because he thinks Filch might be associated with the DL (no clues 
> given here) and he wants to protect his spy status? So he pretends 
> he wanted to find out how save the
> Stone actually was, or even present it to his former master and
> help him to rise again?


Snape could have told Filch that he was checking on things and Fluffy
got out of control.  Even if Filch was suspicious (and he doesn't
seem to be a profound thinker, so he probably wasn't), he is in no
position to question a professor.  As caretaker, Filch probably
operates on a need-to-know basis about things in Hogwarts: he knows
the kids aren't supposed to be up there but nobody said anything
about watching teachers.

There is an advantage for Snape in having Filch help with the
bandages: if he went to the hospital wing, Madame Pomfrey would ask
many more questions and probably have to write up some kind of report.

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