Patronus / Lily's Patronus

[Bill and Diana Sowers]

No: HPFGUIDX 104237

Laurasia: 
> > She doesn't have any animal parallel descriptors to guide us. 
> > Hmm...  Any ideas? Surely not a doe... Unicorn?
 
McMax:
> Being all the Patronus descriptions have always been real animals, 
> I doubt that Lily had a unicorn.


But in the Harry Potter books unicorns are real.  They are seen in 
the Forbidden Forest and used in a Care of Magical Creatures class.  

I suppose if I were to pick a patronus for Lily it would have to be 
an animal mother renowned for its fierce protectiveness of her 
children... even unto death.

A mother bear would be ideal but probably not a good symbol of Lily.  
Where I grew up the small hummingbird was known to kill cats who 
tried to climb up to its nest... but I don't think this is an animal 
found in Great Britain... in fact or myth, and it is a very small 
animal.

Bill