Pince/Filch was Re: Why DD trust Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 152493

 "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
 
> Many here have said that Madam Pinch is really Prince, Snape's 
mother. 
> I wonder if Filch is his Muggle father. We think he is a squib, but 
> maybe he is just a nasty Muggle in disguise.

Potioncat:
In HBP Hermione calls Filch a wizard. That surprised me. We are sure, 
aren't we, that he's a Squib? Doesn't it seem harsh to have this man 
scrubbing away at frog guts and mud when someone else could just wave a 
wand?

Based on the way Snape treats Filch, I don't think Filch is Snape's 
father or step-father. And I think it would gall Snape no end, to have 
his father serve as a janitor at the school where Snape was a master. 
He might not mind that his father had to work hard, but he wouldn't 
want him as part of the staff.
> 
> Tonks:
 We see Pinch get upset 
> over seeing Harry with the potions book. It could just be a 
protective 
> librarian, or something else.

Potioncat:
Harry and Hermione hear a noise and a moment later Pince comes out. She 
gets upset about the book and grabs it.

Much later in HBP we learn that Draco was in the library listening to 
H&H, and it must have been this same time because of what he says he 
heard. (based on what he tells DD on the tower.) So, I think in this 
chapter, Pince is really polyjuiced Draco. Draco knows Harry is doing 
so well in Potions because of the book and Draco wants it too. He's 
overheard Hermione talking about the spells that Harry's found in it.

HBP is really very interesting. We're set up to know that DEs may be 
impersonating others. And now we have DD-is-Snape, Snape-is-DD, Pince-
is-Eileen, Filch-is-Tobias, Pince-is-Draco, Slughorn-is-Snape, Tonks-is-
Narcissa...