"Professor" Snape [was: Sirius and Remus (was : Re: Use of Hagrid's name)]

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 98141


> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> 
> As much as I despise Snape's methods with Harry and, esp., Neville, 
> I think DD is right to call Harry on this disrespectfulness.  It 
> can't do anything to help improve his situation with Snape--er, 
with 
> Professor Snape.
> 

Finwitch:

Nah - respect must be *earned*. While I do see that Severus Snape has 
earned Dumbledore's respect (for things Harry does not know about and 
no one bothers to tell him) he has NOT earned Harry's.

What we see trough Harry's eyes, SS behaves like an insecure, angry 
*teenager* whenever Harry's there and Dumbledore not, in situations 
where he's supposed to be an adult, no less. Hardly respectable. In 
my view, it's a very bad manners upon meeting an orphan to speak ill 
of his dead parent (particularly as that parent ALSO happened to save 
your own life). And the way he torments Neville, seeks revenge when 
Neville's boggart takes the form of him...!

Further, in my experience an adult insisting on kids to 'show proper 
respect to him/herself', is one who is not worthy of that respect - 
and no adult who *is* worthy never has the need to insist on such 
thing.

For the last, insistence on honorifics is one part of English 
language I don't understand at all, and none has yet managed to 
explain it to me.

Finwitch