Dog Lady at St Mungo's (WAS: Why Won't Snape Eat At OotP HQ?)

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 157944

Nikkalmati wrote:
> I like the idea that the Dog Lady is an Animagus transformation gone
 > bad.  If we can't see her face, how can we know who she looks like?
  > Maybe she is one of the missing - thought dead people. 

Abergoat adds:
Hope you had a great vacation! What about the idea that she is a
horcrux victim? But everyone just thinks that she 'made a mistake'
during transformation? The general idea is that Agnes (Dog Lady's name
according to the nurse) is Agnes Filch, Argus Filch's mother. Canon
says Agnes has a son that visits her. I suspect JKR took us to the
ward to see more than Bode and the Longbottoms. They were deadends,
very sad but not clues for future books. Agnes could have been a clue.
Or not...

We go on to speculate that the closeness of Snape to Filch seen in
PS/SS (Filch was binding Snape's leg) is because Eileen Prince is
related to Agnes Filch - perhaps Dog Lady's maiden name was Prince.
Therefore Argus Filch is Snape's uncle.

  
> Nikkalmati (goats rule).

Abergoat snickers:
If I can sell you on Dog Lady, perhaps I can sell you on the idea that
Aberforth holds his head high and his brother isn't sure he can read
because he is presently a goat...possibly another animagus that
Voldemort tampered with in his efforts to extract the memory of the
prophecy. But Aberforth refused to cooperate, the stubborn goat. 

One has to admit this is a better explanation why Mundungus doesn't
wear a disguise when talking with the barman in HBP - Dung is hiding
from the barman that is now a goat with a vicious kick...that makes
the bar smell of goats!

Abergoat