Who conjures the Prongs Patronus?

[Martin Soilleux-Cardwell]

No: HPFGUIDX 53974

"Badger" <realbadger at e...> wrote:
> Actually, it still doesn't dispel my most basic question, which 
comes 
> back to temporal displacement.  Doesn't Harry1 *have* to cast a 
> successful Patronus in order to be able to return later (as Harry2)?

Greetings everyone, my first post (feel free to drag me out and feed 
me to the giant octopus if this has already been picked apart...)

Has anybody considered that the first Patronus may not have been 
conjured by Harry (or Future Harry if you like). If the Patronus is 
conjured by Future Harry we have the messy paradox problem. But if 
the Patronus is conjured by another person there is no paradox. When 
Time-Turning Harry goes to investigate who conjures the Patronus he 
disturbs or otherwise prevents the original conjuror from casting the 
spell, and that person leaves the area or hides (he's now watching 
Harry). It then falls to Harry to cast a Patronus. The fact that this 
Patronus takes the same form of the one he saw earlier is, of course, 
significant.

Harry himself thought he had seen his father. Only JKR knows who he 
really did see, Harry himself analysed the scene over again in his 
mind later but he cannot *know* who he saw.

Regards
Martin