[HPforGrownups] Karkaroff...an animagus??

[Jonathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 45594

I've been lurking for a couple of days on this list, and I've been watching
this discussion and was wondering if anyone had brought a conclusion between
the passage by Betty in her email and the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff quidditch
match in PoA, and the scene in the hospital after which I believe is on
pages 134 through 136. A direct quote from page 136, second line through to
seventh line:

'Dumbledore was angry', Hermione said in a quaking voice. 'I've never seen
him like that before. He ran onto the pitch as you fell, waved his wand, and
you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wand
at the Dementors. Shot silver stuff at them. They left the stadium straight
away ... he was furious they'd come into the grounds, we heard him -'

---

I'd like to think that the 'silver stuff' he shot the Dementors was either
a Patronum, and then in the quote that Betty gave us in her message
also indicates that he used possibly a Patronus to summon Hagrid, or
something else of the sort. The Patronus charm, as Remus Lupin tells us in the
chapter The Patronus, on page 176, that the Patronus is an embodiment of all
the things a Dementor cannot feel, hope, hapiness, etc. Could this also be
friendship, which Dumbledore may have used to summon Hagrid?

Just my two cents on the subject, and I shall now return to watching and hope
my post is useful to this discussion. :-)

-Jonathan (who is new, if you have not guessed)

---snip of Original Message by Betty:
    He raised his wand into the air and pointed it in the direction
of Hagrid's cabin. Harry saw something silvery dart out of it and
streak away through the trees like a ghostly bird. Then Dumbledore
bent over Krum again, pointed his wand at him, and muttered,
"Ennervate."
---End snip


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