addressing women

[suebaru_27 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21840

Miss is generally used for little girls, teens, and young women who 
are not married.

We usually address young professional unmarried women as Ms.  These 
women are usually in their twentys and thirties.  And if you can't 
tell if the woman is married or not, it's generally safer to address 
them as Ms.    

Muggle Professors are educators that have gotten their Ph.D.s  
Hogwarts Professors probably have some type of higher education 
degrees.  

As for Madams, I've never had to address any of our female faculties 
in that respect.  

Suzy

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Betty Landers <landers at e...> wrote:
> I've wondered this for years. What's the difference between Ms. and
> Miss. And also in the HP books, some women (even professors) are 
called
> Madam. (Madam Hooch, for example, and Madam Pomfrey is the nurse)
> Others, on the other hand, are called Mrs. (Weasley, figg), and 
still
> others are just called professor (McGonagall).  So what's the 
difference
> in all these titles?  what makes someone go by a certain title?  
Yes,
> Mrs. means you're married, but what about the rest?  Did I make any
> sense at all?
> 
> --
> "Can't stay long, Mother," he said, "I'm up front, the prefects 
have got
> two compartments to themselves--"
> "Oh, are you a *Prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins with an air 
of
> great surprise.  "You should have said something, we had no idea."
> "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said 
the
> other twin.  "Once--"
> "Or twice--"
> "a minute--"
> "All summer--"
> "Oh shut up," said Percy the Prefect.
> Percy, Fred and George Weasley: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 
Stone,
> Chapter Six.