Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

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Amanda:

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> So--Snape redirects the conversations with Harry at key points, 
using an old
> familiar mechanism, to (a) keep Harry from becoming excited about 
an answer,
> as the excitement may attract Voldemort's attention "inside" Harry, 
and
> therefore basically telling Voldemort much about what we know of his
> movements and motives; and (b) to keep the conversation with Harry 
on a
> familiar, standard, level of interaction to avoid difficulties with 
Snape's
> own Occlumency later.
> 

Alla:

Well, I am going to put aside  my opinion that it would be perfectly 
in character for Snape to demand that from Harry simply to massage 
his ego for one second and point out that option (b) could be 
problematic for one factual reason - we don't know whether Snape is 
indeed came back to Voldemort and if he did not, Snape has no need to 
hide anything from Voldemort.

If it is indeed so, then he keeps conversation with Harry on familiar 
standard level simply because he is who he is, IMO.

Of course  he could have been spying by conventional means, but I 
alwys found the fact that the name of the person who was giving  the 
report to the Order  not named to  be quite suspicious, among many 
other things.

JMO,

Alla.