James Potter's "profession"

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 103994

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jodel_from_aol" <jodel at a...> 
wrote:
> 
> Well, this week, somebody over on WIKtT posted a question 
regarding Patroni, as to whether they always took the form of 
animals. A reasonable question, certainly. And the Patroni we've 
actually seen in canon do all seem to have taken animal forms. 
However, I have a fairly retentative memory and I recalled a very 
old interview wherin Rowling had informed us (probably in respone to 
the question of whether James Potter's Partonus was also a stag) 
that James's Patronus was a nose-biting teacup. He had evidently 
been trying to develop one and was so delighted when he suceeded (do 
we really need to guess whose nose got bitten?) that the silly thing 
eventually became his Patronus. 
> 
> Well. Correct me if I'm wrong -- because this is the point at 
which it all goes south if I've misremembered my references -- but 
aren't nose-biting teacups one of the items sold at Zonko's? Why 
would James try to *make* one if he could have just gone out and 
bought one? 
> 
> Unless he *invented* them in the first place. 
> 

Valky:
Two things Jodel.

1 Wow you do have a retentive memory, I wonder if Jo was joking 
about the teacup. Do you have any further recollection of what 
interview it was? Please.

2 I can see James having conjured a Nose-biting Teacup Patronus 
without the necessity of having to invent one. Zonko's sells 'Nose-
biting Teacups not 'Nose-biting Teacup Patroni'. James was a showoff 
I expect it was quite a party trick. 

Incedently it is quite remarkable if he was able to control the form 
of his patronus because I was under the impression that the patronus 
took form of something that reflected oneself from deep inside the 
subconcious. Not a place that the average person would be able to 
manipulate.