Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

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No: HPFGUIDX 131267

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> Respect may not be due for the teacher, but what about the
> subject?
> 
> We've known from day one that potions  are dangerous, even 
> life-threatening, if mishandled.  If the authority of the
> professor is  not respected, someone could be very badly hurt. 
> Regardless of how he feels about Snape as a person, Harry 
> cannot be allowed to reject Snape's authority and remain 
> in his  class. It would endanger him and all his fellow students 
> besides.
> 
> Pippin

Good point, but I don't recall Harry ever refusing to follow 
instructions on making potions.  It's true he doesn't pay attention 
sometimes, and I suppose you can argue that his disrespect for Snape 
is a part of that, but if so he is no worse than Ron or many of the 
other students -- including some of the Slytherins, judging by Goyle 
setting fire to his own robes.  I guess you could make a more 
general argument that disrespect leads to a "loose" and "dangerous" 
classroom, but we've certainly seen no sign of that.  No one seems 
to regard the accidents that arise in Potions class as anything 
other than par for the course.  You are right that disrespect would 
become dangerous if Harry were to say "Stupid git, I'm not GOING to 
put the bat wings in.  I'll put the newt's eye in and show him!"  
But Harry never does any such.

To expand, I would say that in Potion making (that is his technical 
knowledge about potions and how to prepare them) Snape has largely 
earned Harry's respect.  In so far as that goes I will admit that I 
spoke too sweepingly and modify my statement about Snape not earning 
respect from Harry.  And, in Potion making (which is not exactly the 
same as Potions CLASS), he is granted respect (or as much respect as 
any teacher is going to get from most students of that age).

Now, in Occlumency Snape did not earn Harry's respect, thus leading 
to disaster.  You could say, I suppose, that Snape acts no 
differently in Occlumency than he does in potions, but Harry doesn't 
have the same physical and mental reaction to potions, either.  A 
different situation, then, and respect in one area does not 
automatically carry over into another.  Neither does Snape earn 
Harry's respect in most other areas -- for instance with regard to 
his policies about enforcing school rules.

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