Filch the Traitor?

[Erica]

No: HPFGUIDX 55308

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sarah" <tzipporah42 at h...> 
wrote:
> I apologize if this has been discussed already, if it has just send 
> me into the right archive :)
> I was thinking about JKR's statement the other day about how she 
> included clues in Chamber of Secrets that would be important in 
later 
> books, and it made me think of Harry's discovery of Filch the 
squib.  
> Is it possible that one day Filch might make a bargain with 
Voldemort 
> in exchange for magical abilities and sell Harry out?
> ~Sarah


I always thought that Filch was a good candidate for that person who 
manifests magical abilities 'rather late in life' and possibly this 
is how he comes by those newly aquired abilities.

However, I wonder if he would ever betray Dumbledore like that.  He 
is the only Squib that we've come accross so far in the story that 
lives in the wizarding world.  The other (the Weasley cousin), I 
believe, left the wizarding world for the muggle one.  I get the 
impression that Dumbledore offered Filch 'a place' in the wizarding 
community where everyone else had shunned him (same as Dunbledore did 
for werewolf!Lupin, ideas_beyond_his_station!Dobby, etc)

Erica