[HPforGrownups] Re: Emphasis on the title: Professor (Was: Who calls Vold...

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 151026


ZoeC
Did you not refer to your teachers by their last names?   We all did -
we would also have nicknames for some of them <snip>- and  don't 
forget, in Hogwarts as well as my (and many other schools) puplis  
are often addressed to their faces by just their sirnames,
(especially  Harry by Snape - who always refers to him as  Potter).
<snip>.


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Nikkalmati:
Delurking herself.  Not being from the UK, this custom of  referring to 
people -even one's contemporaries- by their last names is one of  the charming 
quaint features of the HP books.  Here in the US I have  friends whose last names 
I don't even know.  Of course there is the wearing  of robes to class and 
house scarves.  In fact, the whole concept of sending  children away to school at 
age 11 is pretty rare here.  Do any other  customs in the books appear quaint 
to other listees?
 
BTW could any UK or Aussie or Canadian listees explain the term "bloody  
minded"?  Someone used it in a post and it is a term I can't get a handle  on, so 
to speak. Is it related to the swear word "bloody" or is it related  to 
sanguine?  I know it is not complimentary.   
Nikkalmati


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