[HPforGrownups] Patronus

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 79540

At 11:55 AM 9/1/2003 +0000, sylviablundell2001 wrote:
>Joj mom31 wrote:
>"thinking of how popular and admired his father was makes him feel
>valuable and the stag represents his father."
>Would the fact that Harry's opinion of his father has now taken quite
>a battering have any influence on his Patronus, either in producing
>it or the form it takes? I have always wondered why it wasn't his
>mother who became the Patronus.

The one problem I have with this is that he produced his patronus months 
before he learned his father was an animagus. It's obvious that there is a 
connection, but I don't think it has to Harry's conscious knowledge of his 
father. I believe it has more to do with a genetic sort of thing...maybe 
genetics is not the right term...but you can get the idea.