Snape and his use of "The Dark Lord"

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No: HPFGUIDX 167137

Tandra:

> Ok so as I stated before I am reading OoTP over again 
> and I don't know why I didn't notice it before but Snape 
> calls Voldermort The Dark Lord, every time he references 
> him, and gets mad at Harry for using his real name. I 
> just find it odd. I mean, everyone else either calls him 
> "you know who" or by his name (to the dismay of others) 
> It just mmakes me raise and eyebrow that Snape seems to 
> reference him in this kind of reverence.

houyhnhnm:

In the passage you refer to, Harry is trying to justify 
the fact that he is nurturing his dreams about the DoM.

*** 
"But why does Professor Dumbledore want to stop it?" 
he asked abruptly.  "I don't like it much, but it's been 
useful hasn't it?  I mean . . . I saw that snake attack 
Mr. Weasley, and if I hadn't, Professor Dumbledore 
wouldn't have been able to save him, would he? Sir?"
*** 

Snape is more controlled in his response to Harry than 
we have seen him anywhere else in the book and, it seems 
to me, he is anxious, even nervous, about the topic.

***
When he spoke again, it was slowly and deliberately 
as if he weighed every word.
*** 

But Harry wants to talk about the dream.

***" 
The one with the snake and Mr. Weasley . . ."
"Do not interrupt me, Potter,"
"I saw inside the snake's head, not his . . ."
"I thought I just told you not to interrupt me, Potter?"

***
But Harry did not care if Snape was angry.
"How come I saw through the snake's eyes if it's 
Voldemort's thoughts I'm sharing?"
***

"/Do/ /not/ /say/ /the/ /Dark/ /Lord's/ /name!/", spat Snape. 

On the surface this scene is about the power dynamic 
between Harry and Snape, and, yes, Snape does rub his 
arm, and he probably *is* made uncomfortable hearing 
Voldemort's name, and he *doesn't* know if LV is listening in.  

But. 
On my most recent read of this passage, what chiefly 
struck me is that Snape doesn't want to have this 
conversation with Harry.  He's playing "uproar" in 
order to end the discussion, and Harry's saying the 
Dark Lord's name merely provides a convenient offense 
to jump on. 

Why is Snape so uncomfortable discussing 
Harry's connection with Voldemort?  Why does he want 
to keep Harry from talking about his dreams of the DoM?