Corporeal Patronuses; was: OWLS, was: Future Thoughts on HP

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 73811

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stormbringer43"
<stormbringer43 at y...> wrote:

 
> Observation from Stormbringer43:
> 
> Hi Anne, 
> I think you are mistaken ..., when you wrote, "..the one professor was
> so impressed that he could do a corporeal patronus ... but Cho and 
> Hermione and several others could also do one by the end of the 
> book..."  I went back to OOP, Amer. Ed., pages 606-607.  
> 
> ONLY Cho and Hermione had produced corporeal patronuses.  
> 
> I think this is a clue to JKR's future development of Cho, whom we 
> may find is quite a formidable sorceress, since the only DA members - 
>
> ...edited...
> 
> Stormbringer

bboy_mn:

That's not quite true. Only Cho's and Hermione's patronuses are
specifically named, but they are named because they are active at that
moment in time. There are a lot of student who aren't accounted for
and we have no way of know for sure that they couldn't. Certainly some
students are having trouble, but some student are having some success.
Seamus seems to think he produce a full fledge 'hairy' patronus,
although, it disappears very quickly.

So, I don't think we can say for sure that ONLY Cho and Hermione could
produce a patronus. We simply don't have a full enough account to
reach that conclusion.

However, that doesn't invalid your point that Cho is probably a
formidable witch, and that she will play a substantial role in the
future. I agree with that part.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn