Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Filch the Traitor?

[Erica]

No: HPFGUIDX 55361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "izaskun granda" <yutu at w...> 
wrote:
> 
> Erica wrote: 
> 
>  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)
> 
> ME: Dumbledore didn't offer Filch 'a place' in the wizarding 
community. He was already there before Dumbledore became Headmaster. 
How do I know? Well, because he says that he misses the old days when 
detentions took place in the dungeons, they hang students by their 
thumbs of something of the sort. But all that ended when Dumbledore 
became Headmaster. So... maybe he's not so fond of Dumbledore after 
all. He's a very nasty person. 
> 


So, in Riddle and Hagrid's day, Dumbledore is Transfiguration Prof. 
and Dippet is Headmaster and they would allow children to be hung by 
their thumbnails, in the dungeon, as a punishment?  

How do you know that Filch was there before Dumbledore became 
Headmaster?  I recall that there was a different caretaker around 
when Molly and Arthur were at school, so when did Filch come on board.

Erica