boggart

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No: HPFGUIDX 18511

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> I wonder what Patronus (how would I pluralize that word?) the
> Dursleys would conjure up.

Well, patronus (long mark on the a and the o) is straightforward
Latin, second declension, meaning "protector, defender, patron".
(No surprise there.)

Thus:

singular:
N  patronus
G  patroni
D  patrono
Ac patronum
Ab patrono
V  patrone

plural:
N  patroni
G  patronorum
D  patronis
Ac patronos
Ab patronis

Since English usage tends to eschew the case structure and use the
nominative plural (consider "alumnus, alumni"), I would venture that
you should say: "I wonder what patroni the Dursleys would conjure up."

....Craig