[HPforGrownups] Re: Boggart/ Patronus Musings - Quote Lupin

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 105396

In a message dated 7/9/04 10:59:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
justcarol67 at yahoo.com writes:

>As for Lupin, who of course isn't an animagus and certainly wouldn't
have a werewolf Patronus, I think we don't see his Patronus because he
can't quite cast one, DADA instructor or not. All we see on both his
attempts is a bright light from his wand. Not particularly good with
potions or he wouldn't rely on Snape, not as good as his friends at
Transfiguration or he wouldn't have to study for the O.W.L., so in his
year as DADA instructor he teaches about Dark creatures. (I can see
why his interests might lie in that direction, poor man, and I suppose
the subject is more appropriate for third years than defensive spells,
but I'm guessing he taught the same thing in all his classes
regardless of level.) Despite his involvement in making the map and
his knowledge of the theoretical aspects of casting a Patronus, I
don't think Lupin is a particularly powerful wizard. Pretty good with
boggarts, though, and a nice guy if you ignore his many sins of
omission--things he should have done but didn't (but I've already
listed them in a previous post).

Carol<

Remus has produced a Patronus only we are not told what it is because it was 
on the train going to Hogwarts. Maybe JKR wants to keep his Patronus a secret 
because it gave away too much of the story that she wanted to explain later. 
Also in POA we saw Dumbledore do a Patronus and again it wasn't described as a 
form only as a silvery thing shooting out of the wand. 

Batchevra


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