Patronus shape in FB

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55225

Phyllis:
 
> Well, all we really know from canon is that when Harry asks "What 
> does a Patronus look like?", Lupin responds "Each one is unique to 
> the wizard who conjures it." (PoA, Ch. 12).
> ....
> I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think that if one's 
> animagus reflects one's personality, one's patronus would also 
> reflect one's personality. But while one's animagus is always an 
> animal, it's not clear from canon whether one's patronus has to be 
an 
> animal.
> 
> I think when Dumbledore referred to Harry's patronus as "most 
> unusual", he didn't mean that it was unusual that it was an animal, 
> but rather that it was unusual because it was a stag.

I think that Harry's Patronus doesn't reflect *Harry's* personality, 
but that of his father who we know to have been Stag-animagus. After 
all, Dumbledore comments later that he had "found his father within 
himself".

What comes to Harry's patronus - it's unusual for a 3rd-year to 
manage a spell "well beyond OWL" as we're told by Lupin. Not sure 
whereter *stag* makes it any more unusual.

Then again, if Harry comes to think of Sirius as his parent, his 
patronus might be a big dog instead...

Harry's inherited nearly all his physical looks from his father, but 
we don't know much of Harry's maternal heritance. So far, nearly all 
has been of James - about time we hear about Lily... She might not 
have been animagus, but if she were, what form would she take?

-- Finwitch