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

[sachmet96]

No: HPFGUIDX 89190


> However ;-), in the context of the original problem, which was 
> whether or not the DA students would be as able as Harry to produce 
a 
> Patronus in case they truly needed one, I'm afraid Harry's Patronus 
> at the Quidditch match doesn't help us determine that. We've seen 
> that Harry was able to produce his first Patronus when he was 
> concentrating on something else entirely (getting the Snitch), and 
> his second one when he was removed from the action and knew he 
would 
> manage. In the meantime, he failed to produce one when confronted 
to 
> a hundred Dementors. Of course we can quite safely assume that 
their 
> sheer number overwhelmed him, which leaves us wondering whether he 
> would have managed to produce a Patronus if there had been only a 
> couple of Dementors, like he does a year later. So IMO there's no 
way 
> to know if Harry is truly more talented than the other students 
just 
> by looking at their ability to produce a Patronus when they don't 
> need one. What do you think ?

sachmet96
I agree with you. Harry was not able to produce a Patronus while 
practicing some of the others on the other hand were able to do just 
that (Cho if I remember correctly). So they are at least as good/if 
not better as him imo. And it can't be of Harry's teaching skills 
either because he had Lupin as teacher and Lupin is competent.