Snape: The fact that he exists

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No: HPFGUIDX 71000

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana_Sirius_fan" 
> <siriuslove71 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > > Lupin, as well as the other faculty, call him by his first 
name, 
> > > Severus, but you'd think that Lupin would call him "Professor" 
> > Snape 
> > 
> >  Well, a lot of the teachers refer to each other by the first 
name. 
> > Even Prof. McGonagall calls the other teachers by their first 
name 
> > when she is talking to them. Snape didn't call Lupin Prof. 
Lupin, 
> he 
> > called him Remus.
> > 
> 
And then AnneL added:

> Actually, he called him 'Lupin', always. He only uses first names 
> with Karakoff in Goblet of Fire. Lupin kept pressing the issue by 
> calling Snape by his first name -- stubborn overtures of 
friendship 
> or insidious mind game? You decide...
> 

And I (Rhiannon the RavenSlyth) suggest:

Couldn't he have been trying to indicate that he's left their old 
antagonism behind? The emphasis on "Severus" is an indication that 
he's dropped "Snivellus" in the past and is willing to deal with 
Severus Snape as an adult and an equal, instead of as an old rival. 
I suspect that Lupin was willing to make an apology, but Snape 
wasn't yet ready to accept it.


Rhiannon the RavenSlyth, who loves Sirius, Snape, and Lupin just 
about equally.