Mrs. Norris

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No: HPFGUIDX 78830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail"
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wrote:
>  I don't recall ever hearing about how
> Filch came to be at Hogwarts, or anything about his attachment to 
Mrs.
> Norris.  Why does she have a human name? Could she be someone who 
had
> been irreversibly transfigured, or an animagus who got "stuck"?  I'm
> always suspicious when JKR omits background info on characters like
> this.  Any thoughts, guys?
> 
> Entropy

Maybe she was named after his old landlady or some such? ; - ) Joking 
aside: in OoP, we saw another Squib, Mrs Figg, not only having lots
of 
cats, but able to communicate with one, Mr Tibbles (note the "Mr"?), 
just as Filch does with his cat. Is this, perhaps, a compensation for 
being unable to do magic in any other way? Or is it just coincidence? 
Coincidence is rare in JKR's books, though. Sue B