Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 115494


Siriously Snapey Susan:
> > Similarly, while she calls him Albus the one time at PD, I don't
> > think "Dumbledore" indicates much familiarity, and the remainder 
> > of the scene strikes me as markedly different from what we see 
> > 10 years later.
  
 
Geoff:
> Speaking as a teacher who taught during the period in which this 
> is set, I do believe that it indicates familiarity.
> 
> In my situation, the Head would either call us by "Mr. So-and-so" 
> or "Miss So-and-so" if the relationship was no more than 
> professional or by our Christian name if we knew each other better 
> but it was quite normal to refer to the head as "Mr.......". Very 
> few people would use his first name and it would be considered 
> impolite to use his surname without the "Mr." unless there was a 
> very close friendship.


SSSusan:
Wow.  Was this only in *front* of students, or all the time?  I, 
too, was teaching at this time--or slightly before it ['89-'95]--and 
staff members typically called one another by their first names to 
their faces, by Mr./Mrs./Miss/Ms. ____ in front of students, and 
occasionally just by the last name w/o title--sort of as you say, 
between friends kind of joshing with one another.  

Perhaps that's just US informality, though.

I still hold to my argument that the scene, taken in its entirety, 
does *not* evidence as much familiarity betw. MM & DD as we see once 
Harry's at Hogwarts.  It may be that you're right that they're more 
familiar than I suspected, but there's clearly a difference, imo, 
when we see them together 10-11 years later.

Siriusly Snapey Susan