Last names vs First. (was: James/MWPP in Slytherin)

[nkittyhawk97]

No: HPFGUIDX 83527

Mandy:
> Teachers will call a student by their last name as a measure of 
> the childs lower status. First names indicate familiarity.  Just 
> as students will call a teacher Miss or Sir or Professor to show 
> the teachers higher status. 
 
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> Another good example is Professor Snape calling Professor 
> Lupin 'Lupin' through out PoA showing he thinks very little of 
> Remus.  Interestingly almost everyone calls Lupin 'Lupin' perhaps 
> because of his part animal nature puts him below the full humans. 



Well, you have to remember that Lupin was once a professor. Do you 
think they call Dumbledore Dumbledore because he's lower than them? 
They don't say Professor, because they're not talking TO them. 
They've never really said "Remus" because, for the whole first year 
that they knew him, he was "Professor Lupin". After that, it was 
just Lupin because they never called him Remus. If McGonagall 
retired, they wouldn't suddenly start calling her "Minerva". They're 
just not used to it. They call Sirius "Sirius" because there was 
never a time that he was "higher" in status. (like a professor)

~~nkittyhawk