[HPforGrownups]Hogwarts dimensions

[opaldragonfly <opaldragonfly@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52778

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> The more you think about it, the more sympathy you've got to feel 
for Argus
> Filch, trying to do the caretaking work (even though the house 
elves would
> do most of the hard stuff). There must be an _enormous_ number of 
spells
> needed to keep it running (think about the one that would be needed 
to
> de-nastify the amount of sewage produced by the number of people 
there for
> example) which given that his magical abilities are limited at 
best, must be
> really difficult.
> 
> Nor surprising he's so bad tempered!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ffred

I am not sure but that Hogwarts "runs itself" to some extent--over 
the years amassing the spelles and magical necessities to take care 
of what needs to be taken of--LOL.  However, my concern with Filch is 
that he is convinced he doesn't have powers--maybe he does--there 
have been latent wizards before--or late developing wizards.  Even 
more than his regrets at being a "squib" and jealousy of those who do 
give evidence of magical prowess, is the feeling I get about Filch 
having a very unhappy emotional life.  I wonder (often) if Mrs. 
Norris is more than a cat or kneazle--maybe she was a love interest 
who had to transfigure herself into a cat for protection against 
Deatheaters and stayed too long in that form.  Now, she can't return 
to human form--and Filch has taken over her care and is hoping 
Dumbledore and/or McGonagall can figure out a way to restore her.  I 
just remember how upset Filch was when he thought Mrs. Norris had 
been killed in COS!  Seemed a bit excessive, although I have had many 
cats and always cry when one dies.  Opal Dragonfly