Irma Pince is Snape's mother in disguise? AND Filch Squib or Muggle??? then.

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Valky wrote: 
> Ok to start, I am beginning to think it's almost a *given* that 
Pince
> is Snapes Mother disguised and Hidden from Voldie.

Potioncat:
I understand the logic, but I don't think it holds up. Hermione shows 
the boys a picture of Eileen. No one says, "Wow, she looks like Madam 
Pince!" Nor do either of them say, "Well, we know where Snape gets 
his nose!" As often as they've seen Madam Pince, I would think they 
would recognise a picture of her taken in her teens.

No I think JKR chose the name Pince for the library fine of "a 
pence", although I've long ago forgotten where I first heard that 
idea. And I think Prince is for the word-play. Can't figure out the 
name Eileen...doesn't sound very wizarding.


<<snipping reasons why Filch couldn't be Tobias>> 

Valky:  
> The Fors are - that Filch talks to Snape a lot and that they are
> interested in each other's concerns in a seemingly personal way. But
> these could all be simply related to Filch's relationship with Irma
> while we are proposing that she is Sevvies Mum. 
> 
> I am pretty confident that Filch is Filch, but I can't dismiss that
> Pince is Eileen, it all seems very obvious to me.
> 

Potioncat:
I haven't seen any canon to show Filch and Snape are friendly towards 
each other. Yes, Filch helped Snape bandage his leg. Yes, Filch 
reports to Snape. But it seems more of a working relationship in 
which Snape is fairly high in Administration and Filch is very low in 
Labor.

IMO, Filch is a Squib who has worked a very long time at Hogwarts. He 
is not Tobias. And, back to a snipped bit, it isn't certain that the 
shouting man is Tobias either.