Mrs. Norris (third theory for Tabouli)

[bookraptor11]

No: HPFGUIDX 35443

> Cindy:
> > Let's say Filch is a squib and Mrs. Norris has been hexed.  Filch 
works for one of the 
> most powerful wizards ever - Albus Dumbledore.  So why doesn't he 
> just ask Dumbledore to put it right?
>Tabouli replies: 
> Because Dumbledore, like Wormtail, realised that the safest way to 
conceal Mrs Norris from the wrath of her dastardly Death-Eater 
husband was to leave her in animal form.  Filch wept, he pleaded, he 
implored, but Dumbledore was having none of it.  Better a life as a 
cat concealed in Hogwarts than a death at the hands of V's 
followers.  Take good care of her, Argus.  Note that Dumbledore 
treats Filch's anguish when he things Mrs Norris is dead with 
gentleness and respect, far more so than he accords poor Snape in 
*his* hour of torment in PoA...
> 
> Watching Mrs Norris' behaviour, a secondary theory that occurs to 
me is that she was another of Dumbledore's spies or even Aurors.  She 
certainly spies for Filch.  Maybe she infiltrated the Death Eaters 
and succeeded in AKing Wilkes seconds before he Apparated to the 
Potters' to kill Harry, only to be hit by a cat-curse by Rosier just 
before Moody arrived to AK him.  Moody tried to reverse the curse, of 
course, but it proved beyond his expertise, so he took her to 
Dumbledore.  Dumbledore could have fixed her, of course, but decided 
that V's price on her head was too high to risk it, and instead gave 
her sanctuary in Hogwarts as a cat, to work in tandem with her Squib 
lover, Argus Filch...

While reading your theories, a third theory occured to me. Mrs. 
Norris knows how much being a squib pains Filch, and in an effort to 
give him a quick fix peruses many a forbidden volume, either at 
Hogwarts or elsewhere.  I remember Ron telling Harry to be careful 
when looking through magic books.  There was one that you couldn't 
stop reading for the rest of your life and another that had the 
reader talking in rhyme, also without cure.  Perhaps Mrs. Norris 
wasn't careful, was turned into a cat, and the book's spell is even 
beyond Dumbledore's ability to fix. At least at Hogwarts they're 
still together, and hopefully Dumbledore (or somebody)is working on 
it!

Donna