Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter or the characters.

Warnings- Not really brief mentions of violence but not much else.

Summary- Why does Filch acts so horrid all the time? My take on what caused him to be like that.

(Filch POV)

I'm a squib and nobody ever liked me. My parents were disappointed in me. "How did we ever bring suck a disgrace into the world?", My father would always ask mother. My mother did try her best to love me, but with my lack of magic she just couldn't.

In my childhood my father had nothing to do with me other than tell me to help the house elves with the chores because that is all I would ever be good for. "Nothing more than a dirty creature!", he would shout before hitting me. I was kept away from all things magic other than them and their house.

As soon as I reached adulthood my father kicked me out of the house. My mother begged Dumbledore to let me work in Hogwarts (farther of course had no idea). Even though I was not needed to do the work a house elf could do a lot quicker than I could imagine I was given the job of caretaker.

With my first pay check I got myself a companion in the form of a cat. I named her Mrs Norris and she was the most loyal companion I could have ever wished for. She would help lead me to students who were out after curfew and would keep me company when I had no one to go to over the holidays.

Students treated me like my family did. They would purposely destroy things to make me clean it up. They would forever be going on about me being a squib and how I should never be allowed near good people who are my betters. They would prank my and I would just take it because no matter how often I got hurt physically and emotionally they were right.

One student didn't cause me trouble and that student was Severus Snape. He would tip me off when a student was doing wrong, he would help me when I got injured by one of the students "harmless pranks" as Dumbledore liked to call them.

When Severus started working at Hogwarts he told me that the way to protect myself from these students was to make myself an image as a ruthless and horrid person, and that's what I did. Very few students tried to do anything against me anymore as I was just too scary.

So you see, the reason I am so horrid now is because I have to be in order to protect myself. Everyone may hate me, but I am no longer getting hurt. When I get lonely I have Mrs Norris to keep my company. When I am hurt I have Severus to help me just like I help him when he needs me to. The students are fearful of me but I am protected. Protected by an image I put up to save myself.

THE END.

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