Episode 7 Discussion

[JHyde]

And you get that again at the end of the episode, when he is deliberately oblique with the new HS. Even more so than usual, as the whole story is never really told, surely.

I just thought it was very unlike Harry to brush it off. He doesn't usually like being addressed by his title, but in this instance I think he wanted to leave the emphasis on his age, experience and value as an Section head hanging in the air. And the HS very quickly then started calling him Harry anyway.