Snape as having been loved.

[houyhnhnm102]

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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.

houhnhnm:

I'm not laughing.  I thought of that, too, but was embarassed to
propose it.  It seemed a little rococo.  But what if Filch is not a
squib, but a Muggle posing as a squib?  I'm going to go read the scene
on the staircase in GoF again.  I also want to reread Dumbledore's
hallucinations in the cave again.  I had a gut feeling that it was
somehow connected with Snape, but it didn't seem to fit completely.
"Don't hurt *them*".