Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

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Thursday wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Thursday

KarentheUnicorn's Reply:

This is a good point, but, I don't remember so much the other 
children being corrected, can someone share canon...I missed I--and 
the Lupin one also.(hehe, I can't remember everything :-)

I don't know, it just seems that if it was only because of the 
Wizard culture, it doesn't seem like it would be made a point of 
directly to Harry so readily, and rememberable, or at least 
rememberable by me, because generally I forget half of what I've 
read.

Like the first book when Dumbledore is correcting Harry, it just 
doesn't seem very importaint to me for DD to be correcting Harry at 
that time about anything, since, the boy did just about get himself 
killed, and saved the day, and is just recovering....Dumbledore is 
quite a kind man, I believe he would have just let it slide at that 
point, but he doesn't.

Ok, I suppose it can just be the uptight culture...meh, it just 
seems so in your face at that point. Also in that same scene 
Dumbledore is speeking kinda flippantly about Snapes personal 
grudes, "Its funny how people's minds work" We know he is talking 
about Snape....Call him Professor, but his mind works 
funny....hum...Somehow thats a little weird if you as me...but maybe 
I'm reading to much into it.

Also, Lupin along with Molly are part of the order, I don't really 
remember Lupin being out right disrespectful to Snape in the book, 
but, I suppose I need to go back and read it again, I haven't read 
POA in a while. It seems Lupin would also be aware of what Snape has 
done for the order...meh...I don't know, it just seems 
so...noticable, as if, it means more than say: because its Snape 
doesn't mean you shouldn't call him sir or Professor, or, we don't 
respect him either, or we really don't think he deserves it, but you 
better call him sir or Professor.

meh...prob I'm reading to much into it :-)
KarentheUnicorn