Remus, Severus, mind-games?

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 71481

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Irene Mikhlin
<irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> Also I don't consider an uninvited usage of someone's first name as
> a  polite thing to do.

Well, as a young swede, I find the whole title thing ("sir",
"professor", "mr/ms") weird 
to begin with. I have never addressed my teachers or elders or anyone
with anything 
but their first name, and I have never had anyone address me as
"miss". I know that 
probably has nothing to do with the topic since we're talking about a
British school 
here, but I never saw Lupin's use of Snape's first name as anything
but kindness and I 
don't need an explanation for it, but out of the ones suggested, I'd
go with the "bury 
the hatchet" theory; he's just showing that he's not using
"Snivellus" anymore (if he 
ever was using it, which we don't know). By the way, isn't it weirder
that Snape is NOT 
calling Lupin by his first name? They went to school together, for
crying out loud. 
Unless they had the Harry/Draco thing going back then, of course. oh
well; I just 
wanted to offer you some perspective on this first name business.
evangelina