![]() ![]() Īlso during this school year, Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood asked Madam Pince to show them where books on Circe were located in the library, to which she informed them all the books on Circe had been checked out. 1986–1987 school year ĭuring this school year, Rowan Khanna, whom she considered a less reprehensible student, distracted Pince in the library past closing hours by claiming they had left their Self-Inking Quill near some books, so they and their friends could find and enter the Vault of Fear. Madam Pince being interviewed in the Clock Tower Courtyardĭuring the Teacher Appreciation Celebration, Madam Pince showed little patience while being interviewed by the Slytherin student Ismelda Murk. Once he had taken the book, she wrote a warning, threatening the readers that the consequences of mistreating the book would be as horrible as it was in her power to make them. However, Madam Pince was extremely reluctant to let the book leave the confines of the library, as well as the wizarding world, and Dumbledore had to pry each of her fingers from the spine to take it. Īt some point, the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, visited the library with the goal of publishing Quidditch Through the Ages for Muggles to raise money. Pince cleaned the dust on the shelves of the library manually, with a feather duster she brandished at students whenever they looked suspicious. She was also known to place odd jinxes and hexes on library books for their protection for instance, one copy of Theories of Transubstantial Transfiguration, on top of the usual library book spells, was jinxed to hit the reader around the head, should he ever doodle on it. An example of her strictness was the fact that she would not allow food in the library, for fear that the books would be damaged and also disallowed talking, laughing, whispering, sneezing, scurrying, or any other behaviour that might seem at all suspicious in any way. She was greatly disliked by the students for being very strict and unhelpful in finding books for them. Madam Pince standing in the library, overseeing studying studentsĪt some point in or before 1974, Pince took up the position of Librarian at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. " Quiet! I'll tell Madam Pince!" - A student to a noisy classmate in the library ![]()
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