Chapter Discussions - Chapter One, Dudley Demented

[pippin_999]

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Pip wrote:
> 
> Harry tries to produce the Patronus, but he can't think of happy 
> enough thoughts. The Dementors hands are closing on his 
throat when 
> he realises that if he doesn't do something, he'll never see 
Ron and Hermione again.
> 
> Is this a *happy* thought? Harry produces his best and most 
powerful  Patronus's not when he is concentrating on a happy 
memory, but when  he's thinking that he's about to lose 
something that makes him  happy. His friends. Is this in keeping 
with Lupin's instructions in  PoA, that a Patronus is produced by 
concentrating on a happy thought?<<

I think so. The way I read it, missing Ron and Hermione brings 
their memory bursting into his mind and calls forth his power  in 
the same way in which his grief for Sirius at the end calls forth 
the love that breaks the power of the Dark Lord. 

I think Lupin's effort to teach Harry the patronus was quite 
genuine, though I don't believe he  could have expected that 
Harry would become  so good with it that he could hold off a 
hundred Dementors at once. 

EversoEvil Lupin Theory would explain that if Harry thought he 
could challenge the dementors, he'd be more likely to leave the 
school and the protection of Albus Dumbledore, and put himself 
in a position where Lupin or the dementors could harm him.

 Lupin himself does not  produce a corporeal patronus in PoA, 
though maybe this is by choice. Perhaps  his patronus takes a 
form he would not wish the children to see. <veg> 


Pippin