More OoTP Questions - SPOILERS!!

[zenchela]

No: HPFGUIDX 62143

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kaarlo Moran <padawanmage at m...> 
wrote:
> 4.  Why would Harry have been asked to do a Patronus Charm as an 
extra credit during his Owls?  I understand that it was meant as 
extra credit, but would they ask the other students to do something 
similar?  I think Harry will be tapped to have something to do with 
Dementors later on....
> 
I'd like to think it was simply for extra credit (especially since 
none of the testers seemed to be from the Dark camp), but Umbridge's  
nasty smile at Harry after observing the Patronus makes me a bit 
uneasy.

Zen
(newbie -- good morning, everyone)