Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Filch the Traitor?

[Jennifer Angliss]

No: HPFGUIDX 55375

Quoting izaskun granda <yutu at wanadoo.es>:

> 
> 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.

I'm not sure we can take Filch at his word on this one. After all, he says it 
to Harry when Harry has gotten into trouble for something. I could easily see 
him just trying to scare Harry into behaving a bit. 


Jennifer