Flitwick/Fudge/the Potters

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91601

Carol:
I thought of this example in reference to the post about Snape 
never using first names except for calling Karkaroff "Igor," but I
didn't post it because Draco is a kid, so the use of his first name
didn't really count as an exception to the rule. But Snape's use 
of "Draco" made me think that possibly he's an occasional visitor to
the Malfoy manor and that he knew little Draco before Draco attended
Hogwarts. (I'll bet that Snape calls Mr. Malfoy "Lucius" as well.)
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Potioncat: 
Do you remember about when those posts were or what the name might 
have been?  I've been thinking of both of those cases as well and 
wanted to discuss them. I won't go into it until I've had a chance 
to see what others have said.
 
 

Carol:
It took me a moment to understand your question as there's really only
one post. The other existed only in my imagination--but since I said
the same thing here that I would have said earlier, it doesn't really
matter. Surprisingly, I actually found the post I thought about
responding to but didn't using a search for Karkaroff on our
goblin-made search engine. That post is Catlady's and is mostly on
other topics:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/91445

Here's the relevant paragraph:

"(Karkaroff and Snape stood together in that circle (according to both
theories) and they called each other by first names, the only person
Snape has been seen to call by first name. That's my evidence that
Death Eaters who stand together have a relationship. Altho' the
Lestrange gap was only big enough for two people, so Rabastan's place
must not have been next to his brother.)"

She seems to be suggesting that because Snape and Karkaroff were on
first-name terms, they must have stood together in the circle
(presumably in the old days before Godric's Hollow, not in the
graveyard scene where neither is apparently present). I think that's
reaching a bit as I'm pretty sure that at least some of the DEs knew
each other, and certainly the Lestrange's identities and Malfoy's
would have been known to everyone present as they were more or less
the leaders. Anyway, I was going to respond that Snape also addressed
Draco by his first name but decided that since he was a kid he didn't
count. Certainly *he* didn't stand next to Snape in the circle!

Anyway, I hope this is what you were looking for because it's all I
have on the subject. :-)

Carol