Nice vs. Good, honesty, and Snape: Was Snape, Apologies, and Redemption

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 153186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IreneMikhlin 
<irene_mikhlin at ...> wrote:
>
 Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but the fact that this 
> was not reciprocated suggests strongly to me that it was uninvited.
> Lupin has no business to be on the first name basis with Snape.

Lanval:
Of course he does. They're contemporaries; they were at school 
together. Whether Snape likes it or not is another thing.

Irene:
> If professor McGonagall can manage to call a boy that she taught 
not so 
> long ago Professor Snape in public, so can Lupin.

Lanval:
Don't know which scene precisely you're referring to, but if it's in 
front of students, it's to be expected. 
There really are no set rules in the WW, are there? McGonagall and 
Trelawney call one another by their first names, though there's no 
love lost between them. Fudge calls everyone but DD (I think) by 
their first name. No teacher calls Hagrid by his first name (again, 
I'm not sure, but can't recall any example), though he'd be the last 
person to mind. Then there's Arthur Weasley, known to all and sundry 
as 'Arthur', who also calls everyone but DD by their first name, 
even Malfoy. So Lupin calling people by their first name is just him 
being Lupin. 

As for the notion that he calls Snape 'Severus' merely to annoy him, 
well, canon would refute that: he still calls him 'Severus' with 
Snape's wand pointed at him, in the Shrieking Shack. And whatever 
Lupin may be, stupid he's not.

Also: are you saying that Snape is showing Lupin more respect than 
vice versa? Because I sincerely doubt that. He calls him 'Lupin' to 
his face, when they're *alone* (Harry of course having to be about, 
for narrative reasons). No title. Same way he snarls 'Potter', 
or 'Longbottom'. 

Even in front of the class, Snape slips once and simply refers to 
him as 'Lupin'.

Lupin, on the other hand always reminds Harry & friends that 
it's 'Professor Snape'. 
Irene:
 
> If one of my schooldays' tormentors appeared at my work place and 
> started behaving as if we were the best of chums, I'm not sure I'd 
be 
> able to keep my cool even to the level Snape does in PoA.
> 

Lanval:
Guess we're different then. I'd simply assume, until further notice, 
that this person had decided to move on, stopped being childish, and 
was making an effort to be pleasant.