Use of names

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 18722

Amy Z wrote:  

> -McGonagall actually refers to most male students by their last 
names...[but] like Binns and some other professors, even Snape, 
> she is more likely to refer to girls as "Miss" whomever.

I always assumed this was a function of the English Boarding School 
system. Any attendees/former attendees who can verify? (Or maybe I'm 
just thinking of English boarding schools in Merchant-Ivory-ish 
movies). 
 

Amy again: "Lupin calls Snape by his first name but Snape calls him 
by his last > name.  I'm not sure what to conclude from this.  Is one 
of them being > rude, and if so, which?"

I think it's Snape being rude. He and Lupin are colleagues and equals 
(tho' obviously not in his mind). For Snape to refer to Lupin by his 
last name--the way he refers to his male students--is a put-down. 

And finally, re: Snape calling Dumbledore "headmaster," Lupin *does* 
do it, once. Dumbledore tells him his carriage is waiting and he 
says, "Thank you, headmaster." IIRC, those're the last words Lupin 
speaks to Dumbledore. They have their awkward shake-over-the-grindlow-
tank and he's gone. Very moving.

~Rosmerta