Snape-Harry Detente & Dumbledore (was: Worst is yet to come, etc.)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 80983

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> 
wrote:
> Me then:
> <snip>
> > > "I'm trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, 
> > > sir."
> 
> Matt:
> <snip> 
> > Two things about the sentence struck me when I read it and might 
> > have struck Snape when he heard it, as rather unlike the old 
> > Harry. First, Harry almost always forgets to address his teachers 
> > with honorifics when he is interrupted in the heat of the moment. 
> > Especially Snape.  Here, however, Harry remembers to say "sir."  
> <snip>
> > Harry has enough distance from his emotions that he is not only 
> > able to remember to address Snape respectfully, but also to come 
up 
> > with a *subtle* put down of Malfoy.
> 
> 

Geoff:
I saw this as Harry being rather tongue-in-cheek and having a quiet 
little "dig" at Snape..........