PoA Chapters 21-22 Summary (even better format)

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No: HPFGUIDX 22197

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Allison" <nosillaps13 at y...> wrote:

> 
> I think the "rule" is just that a Patronus takes the form of 
> something happy, or something that protects you.  The memory of 
> Harry's parents is quite comforting to him.  What I don't get is how 
> it was a stag.  Harry knew his father was called Prongs, but he 
> didn't know what kind of animal that meant, because he wanted to ask 
> Sirius.  So how could his Patronus have been his father's Animagi 
> form?  


That's a good question that I'll try to answer with a Dumbledore 
quote: "This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable" (PoA).  
Since in the magic world people are able to communicate in ways that 
we cannot, it is possible that somehow, James's spirit has stayed with 
Harry.  Dumbledore said this himself, when he told Harry "You found 
him [your father] inside yourself".  I don't know that Harry ever 
*knew* that his father became a stag when he was alive, but 
subconsciously and spiritually the connection was there.

Did that make sense?

--jenny from ravenclaw**************************************