Emphasis on proper address was: Snape as father figure

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 131372

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
> 
> 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).

but a guy can dream, can't he?

> 
> 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.

I don't know about that. Snapes problems with Harry strike me as far 
to real and raw for him to be truly making an effort. At least thats 
the way I read things.

> *sigh* Need new canon. 

A note of agreement.
 
phoenixgod2000