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

Jen Reese stevejjen at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 19 17:18:54 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 89135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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. 

> 
> 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."
> 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.


Jen R: We find out later in POA that Harry did produce a stag at the 
Quidditch match, when Dumbledore tells him, "Last night Sirius told 
me all about how they became Animagi....And then I remembered the 
most unusual form your Patronus took, when it charged Mr. Malfoy 
down at your Quidditch match against Ravenclaw." (chap. 22, pg. 428) 

Dumbledore doesn't exactly say Harry produced a stag during the 
Quidditch match, but his comment is in the context of Harry "finding 
James within himself" to produce Prongs the night by the lake. 

Also, at the hearing in OOTP, Harry tells Amelia Bones the corporeal 
Patronus he produced was "a stag, it's always a stag." (US, chap. 8, 
p. 141).


Jen, getting back into posting by being a LOON :).





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