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HP: Punch AM in snout to establish superiority.
Anyone else getting tired of this? Harry does it to everyone he meets, including Minerva and Hermione.
He admits freely that Moody would have kicked his ass in a real fight, so I'm not sure how much actual superiority was established there.
Just because Harry's learned to keep his claws sheathed doesn't mean he's not still engaging in dominance contests.
I think in this case it's more an "I'm not as pathetic as you think I am" contest. Nobody's going to mistake him for the best duelist in that group, but he's not willing to concede complete inferiority. It's certainly a status game, it just doesn't rise to the level of "establish[ing] superiority".
Moody set it as a condition for being able to speak as an equal.