Producing a Patronus: Was (Re: Harry the Auror)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89119

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:

Del: 
> And as far as the Patronuses (Patroni ?) go, I'd like to remind 
that 
> Harry didn't manage to produce a good real one until the Lake 
Attack. 
> And even then, he only managed to produce it because he already 
knew 
> he would manage. During Lupin's lessons, he sure learned to produce 
> something, but it was feeble enough that neither he nor Lupin could 
> identify the stag.
> 

Geoff:
Not sure that's true....

"He didn't stop to think. Plunging a hand down the neck of his robes, 
he whipped out his wand and roared, 'Expecto patronum.'
Something silver white, something enormous, erupted from the end of 
his wand. He knew it had shot dirctly at the Demenors but didn't 
pause to watch; his mind still miraculously clear, he looked ahead - 
he was nearly there. He stretched out the hand still grasping his 
wand and just managed to close his fingers over the small, struggling 
Snitch."

(POA "Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw" p.194 UK edition)

"'That was quite some Patronus,' said a voice in Harry's ear.
Harry turned around to see Professor Lupin who looked both shaken and 
pleased."

(same page)

We don't know for certain that it's a stag because Harry is 
concentrating on other things but it's big and Lupin thinks its quite 
something.