Snape as having been loved.

[ceridwennight]

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> Cheryl:
> 
> > Maybe she is in hiding as the Hogwarts librarian, Irma Pince 
(i.e. Im 
> > a Prince :)
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> I took this as tongue-in-cheek when I first read it, but the idea 
has
> really grown on me in the past few days.

Ceridwen:
I've been playing with this one, too.  Along with other threads about 
Irma Pince.  And have come up with a completely AU theory (don't 
laugh!), one that I don't quite believe myself, since Filch is a 
Squib:  Filch is the elder Snape.

Reasons for:  Snape and Filch get along, and both seem to be 
sarcastic brats; the threads about a ship between Filch and Pince.  
Maybe the idea of the Abusive!Tobias was wrong, but people are still 
picking up on book clues that there is a bond between Filch and Pince.

*snip*

> If Madame Pince really is Snape's mama hiding out at Hogwarts in
> Dumbledore's witness protection program, maybe that's the reason 
Snape
> came over to the good side (or a condition of Snape's coming over to
> the good side).  Maybe that's why Dumbledore "trusts Severus Snape".
> And maybe that wasn't really Madame Pince behind the long black 
veil. ;-)

If so, then it may have been a conversation similar to the one on the 
tower, where Dumbledore offers Draco's parents protection.  I don't 
put it past Voldemort to harm or kill the families of his DEs, so 
they can prove their ultimate loyalty to him.  It's probably not the 
first time LV has used such a threat.

Ceridwen.