[HPforGrownups] form of a patronus

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 28609

>   dkgrubb at earthlink.net wrote: 
> <All the discussion of the difference between transfiguration and the 
> <animagus spell is very interesting, but I'd like to draw a 
> distinction 
> <<holding up a large distinction pencil> between the Patronus and any 
> <form of transfiguration.  When Hermione describes Lupin's 
> Patronus on 
> <the train she says "a silvery thing shot out of his wand", 
> and when she 
> <descibes Dumbledore's Patronus she says "Then he whirled his wand at 
> <the Dementors. Shot silver stuff at them." It seems that Harry's 
> <Patronus is the only one we know of which takes a form at all.
> 
> No, I really don't think so. IMO, the patronus is something 
> so very personal that its form is visible only to the one who 
> casts it. If he or she chooses to disclose it to others, like 
> Harry does to Lupin... well, that's their problem. But 
> basically, it's a wizard's very own secret- understandable, 
> as it might disclose hidden aspects of their personality.

I'm not sure that's the case, though. Didn't Dumbledore say at the end of
POA that he remembered the form Harry's Patronus had taken during the
Quidditch match when he sent it towards the Slytherins? That would mean that
he'd seen it.

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