No thats exactly what I'm looking for - I want to get what we all seem to remember - which is very bad - and what JK Rowling seems to confirm as far as her own opinion of Madam Pince(there's that quotation from when a librarian got to ask a question (on a different subject) and JK Rowling made a comment along the lines of "oh good - I was afraid you were going to ask about Madam Pince" and how more or less she was that bad, simply because if Hogwarts had had a good librarian, there would have gone most of the plot...

Anyway - I just have a hard time remembering any specifics - so I'm going to start going through the books looking for every instance (this may take quite a while) where the library or Madam Pince is mentioned (oh how I wish Jo would allow ebooks!) and see just what there is - I just wanted to kind of get the "gut" librarian reaction from more than just myself and my friends before I start seeing what actually happens - because it may completely confirm it - or we may find that she's really more noticably absent than actually bad...

But I absolutely agree with your comments! Even if she is more absent than mean or whatever - that is still not an acceptable view of librarianship!! She is obviously not approachable (if anyone could stand her, it would be Hermione - out of a want to find out everything if nothing else - but even she doesn't go to Pince about anything!)

Of course - granted - the HP series in general doesn't exactly promote taking one's problems to adults... in any kind of situation...

But anyway - thanks! I appreciate it! (and I just wanted to make sure you didn't have a Madame Pince post hidden somewhere since I saw that you have quite a few essay type posts here)

-Ally