[HPforGrownups] Addressing a friend.

[Fiona]

No: HPFGUIDX 48929


           Tzvi of Brooklyn wrote:

  >"Fancy seeing you here Professor McGonagall" says Dumbledore in chapter
one
  >of PS/SS. Does anyone else find this strange that he would call her by
her
  >teaching name. He calls her Minerva, he calls Madam Pomfrey, Poppy. So
why
  >would he address her like that?


  I am a teacher and my colleagues and I often refer to each other by our
"teaching names" when we are being ironic, a bit sarcastic or pretending to
be formal. And, of course, always in front of the children.

  Fiona



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