Character Summary: RENEPEP's

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1410

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...>  
wrote: 

"can we consider the "forms" of Voldemort's victims as ghosts, as 
well?  They certainly are the   embodiments   of dead persons, even
if 
only temporarily manifested.  And what about Harry's Patronus?  How 
did he manage to produce a   patronus   that was the spitting image 
"ghost" of his dead father as the Stag   Animagus?  As for the Priori 
Incantetum phantoms, I don't have GoF in front of   me, but I
remember 
Dumbledore specifically saying that these were   not   Harry's
parents 
returned from the dead.  I don't think these   phantoms   have any 
life of their own; they just appear to by saying and doing   what 
James and Lily *would* say and do if they were there.  It is a   
subtle difference, but, I think, an important one.  I would say the   
phantoms are merely preserved "memories" of Lily and James.  They   
are   similar to wizard photographs: they do things that appear to 
give   them personality, but they are not truly sentient."

Dumbledore described them as "echos" of the persons killed, similar
to 
a memory. This could mean they have similarities to the "memory" or 
"echo" that Tom Riddle put into the diary in Chamber of Secrets.
Could 
these memories have been stored more permanently in some way the way 
Riddle's was? 

I believe that Lupin told Harry that a Patronus was positive energy 
that took a form unique to its creator.