What (who) is Filch - definition
GROUP OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IN HARRY POTTER SERIES
Nearly Headless Nick; Gilderoy Lockhart; Sibyll Trelawney; Sybill trelawney; Salazar Slytherin; Quirinus Quirrell; Madam Hooch; Argus Filch; Mrs. Norris; Godric Gryffindor; Poppy Pomfrey; Madam Pomfrey; Professor Trelawney; Rowena Ravenclaw; Helga Hufflepuff; Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (ghost); Professor Flitwick; Filius Flitwick; Professor Vector; Fat Friar; Professor Sinistra; Professor Binns; Professor Sprout; The Fat Friar; Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank; Professor Grubbly-Plank; Pomona Sprout; Rolanda Hooch; Irma Pince; Madam Pince; Professor Kettleburn; Dippet; Quirrell; Sybill Trelawney; Hogwarts house ghosts; Minor Hogwarts Teachers; Prophecy (Harry Potter); Cassandra Trelawney; Horace Slughorn; Professor Slughorn; Slughorn; Hogwarts founders; Galatea Merrythought; Professor Merrythought; Professor Pomona Sprout; Melinda Bobbin; Slug Club; Slug club; Madame Pince; Staff of Hogwarts; Frederick Binns; Dirk Creswell; Cuthbert Binns; Aurora Sinistra; Madame Hooch; Gilderoy Lockheart; Hogwarts Founders; The Hogwarts Founders; Professor Quirrel; Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington; Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington; The Slug Club; Hogwarts Ghosts; Kwikspell; Hogwarts teachers; Harry potter prophecy; Professor Charity Burbage; Charity Burbage; Hogwarts ghosts; Helena Ravenclaw; Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington; Rowana ravenclaw; Filch; Septima Vector; Dirk crestwell; Crestwell; Professor Quirrell; Hogwarts faculty; Minor Hogwarts teachers; Sybil Trelawney; Trelawney, Sybill; Trelawney Sybill; Teachers in the Harry Potter series; Quirrel; Headmistress Minerva McGonnagal; Silvanus Kettleburn; List of Hogwarts staff; Mcgonnagal; Slughorne; Hogwarts Staff; Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington; Sybil Trelawny; Professor Quirinus Quirrell; Draft:Quirinus Quirrell
![David Bradley]] as Argus Filch.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HogwartsTeachers.jpg?width=200 "David Bradley]] as Argus Filch.")
filch
v. (d; tr.) ('to steal') to filch from
filch
v. a.
Pilfer, purloin, steal, crib.
Filch
·vt To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to Pilfer.
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Hogwarts staff
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
Pronunciation examples for Filch
1. No. Mr. Filch! you don't understand--
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. We extorf, we pilfer
We filch, we sack...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Examples of use of Filch
1. I think someone is hoping to filch a couple of votes off of this affair.
2. The gap between the number of votes that Peres and Rivlin receive in the first round will be determined by the number of votes that Peres manages to filch from Labor MKs.
3. Yet despite questioning from MPs, ministers have refused to publish either legal advice or an outline of their legal argument, claiming "legal professional privilege". Next month, the government is expected to filch a further 120m–140m from the fund.
4. To warn castmates that he‘s napping, he tapes a white paper plate to the door with the handwritten message "Igor is Sleeping." Fitzgerald says "Young Frankenstein" was one of his favorite films growing up and he tried to filch as much as he could from Feldman that would translate to the stage.
5. And why would the General Staff give in to Serdyukov‘s plan to turn various factories owned by the Defense Ministry into more transparent joint–stock companies –– particularly when this would make it somewhat more difficult for military personnel to filch from these enterprises?