Pince/Filch was Re: Why DD trust Snape

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 152522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>

> And if  Tobias and Eileen Snape are being hidden at Hogwarts, it is
> very likely that they are under the protection of the Fidelius charm.
> 
Steven1965aaa:

Really a fascinating theory.  Whatever deal Snape made would probably 
parallel the offer DD made to Draco on the tower, hide your parents / 
they can't be killed if they are "already dead".  Snape's sacrifice 
(great personal risk) to save his mother would also reverse parallel 
(to some extent at least, since it's obviously not as great a 
sacrifice) Lily's sacrifice to save her son.  And Pince/Prince is so 
close.  It would be just like JPK to make a minor character like Madam 
Pince turn out to be important in the end.  But I have a problem 
seeing Filch as someone who ever existed in the muggle world.  Aside 
from the "magical" relationship with Mrs. Norris (I guess you could 
argue that a muggle could communicate with a magic cat, or that DD 
could have bewitched it, or some other explanation) he just seems so 
steeped in the magical world that I can't see him ever having lived 
outside of it.  As I sit here I can't point to a specific incident 
that makes me feel this way (and maybe my view is colored by the 
movies) ...help anyone ?

Anyway, if you were names Tobias Snape and had to assume a new name 
for your protection, would you chose "Argus Filch"?  I mean, if you 
had to suffer "Tobias" for your entire life, would you really want to 
become "Argus"?