How J's Sacrifice led to H's Patronus?(was: Why were the sacrifices differen

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No: HPFGUIDX 96010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cerebella316" 
<cerebella316 at y...> wrote:
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> ~Bella
> 
> who wants to add that she finds it very interesting that 
Hermione's 
> patronus is an otter, JK's favorite animal. Is this meant to once 
> again give Hermione an attribute that, in a way, links her to JK 
> herself? Or could it be that it is JK's way of saying that she 
> herself will protect Hermione from too much harm as the 
series comes 
> to an end? (Meaning that we can bet Hermione will be one of 
the 
> survivors of the series??) 
> 
> Just a thought (that I might have mentioned before, now that I 
think 
> about it!?!? Whoops!)

Sue B:

Or maybe she used her favourite animal because that's the sort 
of thing writers do? :-) JKR has said before that Hermione is the 
character with whom she most identifies. If *I* were writing the 
story, for example, Hermione's patronus would be a unicorn - no 
special reason, I just like unicorns. (g) So maybe there's no 
special reason except that Hermione is the JKR alter-ego and 
she likes otters?

Which doesn't mean she won't survive, just that the author isn't 
necessarily telling you anything here.