Argus Filch

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 101738

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> In Greek mythology, Argus was a hundred-eyed herdsman or servant of
> Hera.  When Zeus seduced Io, he changed her into a cow to in an
> unsuccessful attempt to deceive Hera.  Hera asked Zeus for the cow 
and set Argus to guard bovine-Io. Zeus then had Hermes kill Argus to 
free Io. 

Valky:
Hasnt there been some threads investigating the link between 
Hermione's name and the Greek Mythology of Hermes. If this, and the 
above parrallel, is apt , and I am quite sure it very well could be, 
it would imply that Hermione has been managing to keep many more 
secrets from us than we know. 
That Hermione is good at keeping secrets IS canon, so about the 
spell on Argus' eyes, could our very "brightest witch of her age" 
put a spell on him to protect her friends sometime early in the 
story that we dont know about. 
Also Hermione is the resident history expert so I suspect she 
already has made an accurate guess to herself who IO/Norris is she's 
just not telling.... and speculating the reason for that is the best 
clue we have to the nature of what exctly Mr Norris is. Also I will 
be investigating Hermiones few interactions with Mrs Norris in the 
books to scour for more.