Ceiling wax / Madam(e) / fanfilm / couplethink

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, <pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:
> 
> Madam Hooch is a member of the Hogwarts staff, as is Madam Pince, 
> which goes a long way towards explaining these two being referred 
> to by surnames rather than given names.  I suspect that any student 
> addressing Madam Hooch or Madam Pince (or referring to her in 
> presence of a teacher - particularly Professor Snape or Professor 
> McGonagall) as Madam Horacia or Madam Priscilla or Madam Hieronyma, 
> or whatever the given name is, would be in grave risk of detention, 
> as there are rules for how you address a member of the staff.  

Yes, but we the readers know that Madam Pomfrey's given name is Poppy 
because we've overheard Dumbledore call her that and we know that 
Madam Pince's given name is Irma altho' I forget how we learned that. 
We know that Miss Trelawney's given name is Sybil at least when she 
comes downstairs to Christmas dinner: "Tripe, Sybil?" That we have 
never overheard another staff member call Hooch by her given name 
nor seen any documents with her full name on them *could* merely be 
because we see so little of her in canon, but to me it seems that she 
is deliberately avoiding her given name because she hates it.