Pince/Filch was Re: Why DD trust Snape

steven1965aaa steven1965aaa at yahoo.com
Fri May 19 19:16:56 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 152515

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
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> Steven1965aaa:
> 
> > But if Snape's parents were trying to hide, 
> > wouldn't calling herself "Madam Pince" be a 
> > pretty poor disguise for "Madam Prince"?
> 
> houyhnhnm;
> 
> Especially when it's an anagram for "I'm a Prince". :-)  It is a 
poor choice for an alias, I agree. (Although she would have been 
Mrs. Snape for the previous twenty years or so.) But then "a lot of 
the greatest wizards haven't got an ounce of logic" so they probably 
don't get word play or anagrams either.

Steven1965aaa:

Good one.  Would have been poor judgment in selecting the name, but 
not as bad as thinking a cheese caldron was a good idea whose time 
had come.  That makes me wonder though, I'm terrible with the 
timing/dates analysis, but given the ages and the date of the HBP 
potions book, is it possible that Prince went to Hogwarts at the 
same time as LV and Hagrid?  If he knew her then, he would have 
known her as Prince.  









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