[HPforGrownups] Re: Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 131306



--- Amanda Geist <editor at texas.net> wrote:

> And I maintain that Snape is making these corrections deliberately,
> to control the conversation, for reasons that have nothing to do 
> with Harry personally and everything to do with the fact that 
> Voldemort has a window
> into Harry's mind.... 
> 
> 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.


I don't disagree with Amanda's statements but I would like to add
that after the initial order to "address me as Sir" at the start of
lesson one, the later insistences come just when Harry is asking
questions that Snape might not be able to answer.  It's an
interjection that buys Snape some time to think of an alternative to
the truth and reinforces Harry's anti-Snape feeling.

Magda


		
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