The Prince and Filch Family Trees

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 156706

Abergoat adds (to herself ;):

I've been thinking, it is possible that Snape lived in the Shrieking
Shack and the tunnel to Hogwarts was originally built so Irma Pince
and Argus Filch could get to work. We are told the Whomping Willow was
planted the year that Lupin came to Hogwarts - but are we told when
the tunnel was built? The house was abandoned, but it would have been
because Severus, Irma and Argus probably spent summer's elsewhere
(Spinners End?) and knew they wouldn't need to return because Severus
was entering school next term.

Living in the shrieking shack gives Snape a chance to mingle with
students (much older than him) at Hogsmeade. And since Snape never
brought out the best in anyone as far as I've read I suspect he got
tortured to some extent so he, of course, learned to fight back.

But the biggest question I realized is WHERE DID SNAPE GET A WAND TO
LEARN MORE HEXES THAN MOST SEVENTH YEARS before his first year?

The Ravenclaw relic (now horcrux) that Filch 'filched' back perhaps?
;) Leave it to a young child to find something his parents are trying
to hide.

Abergoat