I think your quill must have malfunctioned. Thanks :)

Aaaah now i’m in for some confusion.

I feel Argus Filtch has hidden his non-magic from the school. Thats why his KWIKSPELL correspondence course letter was something Filtch didn’t want Harry to tell anyone about and in the end told everyone anyway. This would also explain why Filtch worked so hard at the school. Just to keep his secrete.

Filch was an interesting character, to say the least, I loved the way him and Peeves got along!!!! that is to say NOT AT ALL!!!! Peeves loved aggravating Filch, and it is really ashame they could not have found the time to include Peeves in all of the Movies!!!! Filch loved Umbridge, and was so excited that he would be having more authority to punish students when she became head Mistress!!! for a spell!!!! I really liked Mrs Norris, a beautiful cat!!!!

Nice John. You spelled his name wrong. And yes, I am smarter than John Noe. Heheheheh… :) Don’t worry. I still think you’re awesome.

I’m rereading Chamber of Secrets at the moment and thought the exact same thing! A bit of mud for a wizard: scourgify and you’re all set, whereas for a squib it means finding mops. (And he’s a squib, therefore didn’t get sorted, therefore isn’t a Hufflepuff, so not very good at finding.)

Oh and you spelled Filch wrong, John.

haha is a weird character , its great

Oh,now I’ve started to feel sorry for him…haha :-)

I always wondered if maybe Dumbledore gave him the job because he felt sorry for him? Afterall, he did that with Hagrid and pretty much Trelawney too. Maybe Filch just wanted to be at Hogwarts and in the end he didn’t care if he was a student or if he was staff, he just wanted to be there? And maybe he half thought all the magic from the students might one day rub off on him, like radiation or something. Except eventually he would have realised the truth that he would remain a squib forever, yet always surrounded by hoards of youngsters who take magic for granted, but he’d be trapped in limbo – not really a wizard and not really a muggle – so he’d never be able to do anything else or have any other job and … if you think about it like that, you really can’t blame him for becoming so bitter.

Ha. He spelled his name wrong. >:) I find that amusing. :) :)

I really like MissHorntails comment! I want to point out that his first name is Argus. So , like in greek mythology, he s got an Argus Eye on things happening in Hogwarts, not a magical eye…..

I’d like to think that Dumbledore knew he was a squib. He proved in HBP that he could detect magic, and he would have sensed that there was none in Filch. He probably just wanted to give the poor bugger a home. Filch had probably been an outcast all his life. This was his way of still having a place in the wizarding community, albeit an underapreciated one.

Just went and read his Wiki page, pretty neat story he has that you kind of forget about. He’s actually very involved in the main story.

Awwwwww Filch! :( I agree with MissHorntail and Giant Fairy!