SpellCast Vidcast from OotP Premiere

[justcarol67]

artsylynda wrote:
> 
> > Luna's Patronus is a rabbit - Ron's a dog.  And yeah, it's 
always> bothered me that JKR wrote them as being able to do Patronuses
when it  was supposedly so amazing that Harry could do one at age 13. 

zanooda responded: 
> She didn't write it like that. In the book we only see two
successful Patronuses in this scene - Hermione's and Cho's. We don't
really know how many kids managed to cast their Patronuses. JKR stated
herself that Ron's Patronus was Jack Russell terrier or something, but
she didn't write anything yet about him producing one. I mean, maybe
he did it, but it's not in the book :-).
>
Carol responds:
Still, it bugs me a little that Harry gets an extra point for casting
a Patronus when at least one other fifth-year, Hermione, can do it,
too. (And she got an E on her DADA OWL for some reason, so she needed
that point more than Harry did.) In any case, there's all the
difference in the world between producing a Patronus in the RoR and
producing one against a real Dementor, so the DA members' ability
isn't quite the big deal that the movie is making it. Even Harry, who
had the advantage of a Boggart Dementor to practice on, found casting
one against a real Dementor determined to suck out his happiness (and
then his soul) exceedingly difficult. We won't see the DA casting
Patronuses *against Dementors* in the OoP unless they've changed the
plot beyond recognition. I suppose the Patronuses are there as
enjoyable special effects and proof that "You're a really good
teacher, Harry."

Carol, who thinks that someone will have big trouble casting aPatronus
in DH and have to resort to Snape's method (at least in the book)