Filch Squib/Muggle/Tobias WAS Re: Irma Pince is Snape's mother in disguise?

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 137360

I'm not willing to fully buy the idea that Filch really is Snape's 
father, but I can picture a scenario where an Abusive!Tobias refuses 
to go into hiding. I tend to think of abusive people as people who 
are scared of loosing control or not being in charge. Therefore I can 
see such a person not accepting protection from somebody else, since 
that would make him dependent of others, and in his own mind he would 
loose his face.

A possible solution to this dilemma would be to modify Tobias's 
memory. His personality is still there, but he now thinks of himself 
as a squib, and he does not remember being married and having a child.

If Eileen and/or Snape still care about him it would be logical that 
they would want him out of danger (or at least be out of the way), 
but I can also see them having mixed feelings for him, and in that 
case it does seem lika a fitting punishment to let: 
• him guard a whole castle full of children (nasty brats in his 
mind), and not be able to give them (what he thinks) proper 
punishments. 
• to address his son in a respectful way and do what he is told. 
• to carry the not so charming name Filch :-)


Marika