"Professor" Snape's repect. [was: Sirius and Remus

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 98174

<<<Potioncat wrote: ...Respect is due.  And I think DD is gently 
insisting on that, understanding the ill feelings between the two and 
letting that be.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

As has already been pointed out, British boarding schools are meant 
to teach military manners to the boys.

The words "respect" and "courtesy" do not carry exactly the same 
connotations they do in civilian life. Military courtesy and the 
respect shown to a superior officer have less to do with what one 
thinks of the officer in question and more to do with one's own 
military bearing. One of the cheapest and most entertaining enlisted 
pastimes on the base where I was trained was to wait outside 
administrative buildings for newly minted lieutenants with armfuls of 
books and papers, and salute them smartly, calling loudly "Good 
morning, SIR! Afternoon, MA'AM!" As we had many days of service on 
them, we could almost always make them drop their papers on the 
mandatory return salute.

Then there's the story (apocryphal, perhaps, but I believe it) of the 
young lieutenant who insisted on proper courtesy in the field even 
though the grizzled old sergeant tried to explain why saluting in 
combat situations was bad operational security. Old Sarge finally 
says "Well, sir, if you insist..." As the story goes, the young 
officer's head was gone before his hand completed the return salute.

Snipers.

I don't understand why Dumbledore couldn't find some way to see that 
Harry knows what he needs to know if he's such a clever wizard, but 
it's obvious that, for many reasons, Harry needs to learn to keep his 
feelings in check, and his thoughts to himself.