Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Filch the Traitor?

[Eunice]

No: HPFGUIDX 55379

Izaskun said:
>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.>


I'm calling movie contamination on this one. *puts on gloves* In 
TMTMNBN (I think I got that right) Filch says that part about the 
thumbs and "I miss the screaming" BUT in the book he says...

"It's just a pity they let the old punishments die out... hang you 
by the wrists from the ceiling for a few days, I've got the chains 
still in my office, keep 'em well oiled in case they're ever 
needed..." P/SS, ch 15, pg 248 U.S. paperback

So there's no proof that he was there when the "old punishments" 
were still used. Just that he still has the, well kept, means to use 
them. BTW I don't subscribe to FIE (Filch Is Evil).

Star Opal
who had a dream where all the secrets of OotP were revealed, but 
forgot