OOP: FLINT - Harry's Patronus

[Christi]

No: HPFGUIDX 67486

Jenny Wrote
" In the first DA meeting at the Hog's Head, there's quite a big 
FLINT.  Susan 
> Bones asks Harry about his ability to create a corporeal stag 
patronus and Lee 
> says he never knew that...frankly they *all* should know this 
unless they 
> weren't at the Quidditch match in PoA when he produced the one 
that went after 
> Malfoy.  Now, we know the whole school turns out for these 
matches, and that DD 
> commented at the end of PoA about the unusual form (the stag, 
which James used 
> to be as an animagi) his patronus took when it charged Malfoy. Lee 
was 
> definitely there, as he always does commentary.  And I highly 
doubt that people just 
> didn't realize it was a Patronus, after all, upper-level students 
do learn 
> about these, so they at least would've known and probably passed 
the word among 
> the rest of the students if it was such a big deal, which JKR 
clearly shows us 
> in OOP that it is."



Harry had not mastered the patronus charm at that point-he didn't 
manage that until he and Hermione had used the time-turner. 
Apparently he was able to produce enough of one that it was 
recognizably a stag (at least to Dumledore), but IIRC Harry was 
still shaky aboutit at the time of the Quidditch game. I don't think 
it would have qualified as a true corporeal Patronus at that point.

Christi T.



> 
> ~Jenny