Snape's Patronus

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No: HPFGUIDX 90793

Amanda wrote: 

>I submit that Snape probably cannot perform Expecto 
>Patronus. It's not that I doubt his power or will--but I 
>doubt he has sufficiently happy memories. 


I don't think it makes sense to think Snape has no happy memories. 
*Everyone* has at least one happy memory. 

Also, I think it would undermine Snape's believability as a character 
for JKR to say he has no happy memories whatever. Canon doesn't 
require the happy memory to be a tremendously significant, life-
altering event, or even one that would make most people happy. It 
just has to be happy enough to conjure the charm. 

Not only that, it seems that experience in conjuring a patronus means 
that later attempts can be premised on less happy memories. Harry 
need only think of Ron and Hermione to conjure a patronus in OotP. In 
PoA, however, he had to think of two instances in which he was 
allowed to leave the Dursleys. 

Paula