Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 131367

Phoenixgod:

> DD's insistence on proper modes of address wouldn't bother me as 
> much if there was any indication he was also putting pressure on 
> Snape to treat Harry better. I want to know if DD is also correcting 
> Snape in private to refer to Mr. Potter more respectfully as well.

You better get used to being bothered, then--because that's not 
anything Harry's likely to see, unless he overhears it (a la 
the "staffroom scene" in CoS or the night conversation between 
Dumbledore and Snape in the Great Hall in PoA).

> I 
> just get the feeling that everyone seems to want Harry to go the 
> entire way when it comes to Snape without Snape making any effort at 
> all to keep up his end of the respect bargain.

Not at all. It has to be from both sides. I just think that Snape may 
already be doing what you want to an appreciable degree, internally--
but is constrained by what he can express (or needs to be on record 
for expressing). And since Harry either can't see it or is not 
correctly interpreting it*, it's not "there" for us as readers.

*and on that note, let me state for the record my frustration with 
Harry's double-think in the OoP, in Umbridge's office, when he has 
just agonized over how to give a message to Snape that Umbridge will 
not understand--and then doesn't seem to have a clue that Snape can't 
say, right there, "OH! I understand, you're talking about Sirius, 
right?" or even "I'll take care of it, Potter," If Harry knows to be 
secret about it, why the hell doesn't he realize Snape can't give any 
evidence of understanding him without piquing Umbridge's interest? Mmf.

*sigh* Need new canon. 

~Amanda