What's the deal with the name?

Madam Irma Pince is the crotchety librarian that works at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (Now, if you don't know what that is, you might as well stop reading this blog as it will be of absolutely no interest to you.) Madam Pince is a thin, vulture-like old lady who is rather strict and sucpicious and might harbor a romatic interest in the caretaker Filch (gross!). While we share a profession, I hope we have few other similarities.

However I do want to add Madam Pince's highly amusing note that resides on the inside of all Hogwart's books:

"A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them."

Awesome.