Master of This School

[zoe0coll]

No: HPFGUIDX 111689

"zendemort" <zendemort at y...> wrote:
> When Snape comes across the Marauder's Map, he tells the map 
> "Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, demands that 
> you reveal the secrets you hide" (snip). But there is a little
> problem here. You see, Snape is not the master of Hogwarts! DD 
> is the "master of this school"! So why does Snape call himself 
> master of the school? 


In English public school, (private & fee paying) teachers are 
referred to in the old fashioned way as a school master or mistress, 
which is where the title head master or head mistress comes from
(now overtaken by the phrase head teacher).  So Snape is just using 
his proper title of school master or potions master, which is just 
an older term for potions teacher or school teacher.

This doesn't mean however that he hasn't got designs on DD's job!

Zoe C