Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

[thursday morning]

No: HPFGUIDX 131006

KarentheUnicorn:
> the way the character of Snape appears to me, he is a person that
> values and wants Respect above everything else, perhaps he demands
> it in the classroom so much because it is possible something he
> never had. I don't think he would willingly let Harry see something
> that would so humiliate him, because he is demanding Sir/professor
> so much. And others have demanded it for him as well, Dumbledore and
> also I believe Molly also corrected Harry as well on that, wanting
> him to call Snape, Professor Snape. I can see why Dumbledore might
> do it, what is Molly's reason for doing it? I had not though of her
> as being so caught up in the sir, madam thing. She is in the Order,
> so, she must know quite a bit about Snape...meh..I guess that is
> stuff for later.

Not saying that Severus Snape doesn't want to be treated with respect but I've always thought this was also just teaching basic good manners.  Growing up I was permitted to address adult friends of the family by their first names but all throughout my parents childhoods and back children neither addressed nor referred to adults in 'familiar terms.'  Wizard culture is certainly old fashioned.  More than once I've read a comparison to the Victorian era.  Also, with the greater age to which wizards and witches live, the majority of them would have been raised with a very much stricter expectation of behavior than I was having been born during the flower child era.  I think this does more to explain why *all* the adults (except Sirius of course) correct the children than the 'Snape is demanding respect he hasn't earned' theory.  Even Lupin corrects Harry on this point.

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