Master of This School

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No: HPFGUIDX 111752

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> wrote:
>  zendemort [mailto:zendemort at y...] 
> 
> I found something very intringuing while reading PoA for the second 
> time. It is minute, but interesting nonetheless. 
> 
> 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" (quote is not exact but along the 
> same lines, although the "master of this school" part is exact). 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? I wonder what he is after? Does 
> he wish to become the Headmaster of Hogwarts at one point? 
> hmmm....... 
> This could provide clues into his personality... and his private 
> thoughts (possibly, he considers himself greater than Dumbledore, 
> the true master?)... But can it also tell us anything yet to come?
> 
> "zendemort" 
> 
> 
> Sherry says
> 
> Actually, I believe that in England, it used to be common to call a teacher
> master.  Even in the New Testament, when the disciples of Jesus refer to him
> as master, it means teacher.  I don't know if it was ever done the same way
> in the US.  I can't think of any literature right now with a teacher called
> Master.
> 
> Sherry G

Antosha:

As a matter of fact, if you read "The Legend of Sleep Hollow," Ichabod Crane is referred to 
(at the very least) as the schoolmaster; but I seem to remember him being called 'master' 
as well.

That's why the name for the person in charge of the school is HEADmaster; it's not 
redundant, it means 'head teacher.' Just as 'principal' does on these colonial shores...

It's also the reason that a person who receives what was intended as the lowest teaching 
degree is called a Master of Arts or Sciences.