Harry's future...

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 106231

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "texaschow"
<flamingstarchows at a...> wrote:
> --- "cincimaelder" wrote:
> <snip> - When Harry was teaching DA the Patronus charm in OoP, they 
> seemed to
> > do better than Harry did on his first shot at it.  Both Cho and
> > Hermione where able to summon an animal, and all Harry was able to
> > manage at first was some wisps vapor.
> 
> When Harry was learning the Patronus Charm, Lupin used a Boggart, 
> which turned into a Dementor in Harry's case.

Also, I don't believe it was the first time they did Patronuses. Harry
told them he was planning to teach it after Christmas. I don't have
the book here but if I remember correctly the text was something like
"they have finally started to do Patronus charms", not that it was the
first time necessarily (only that it was Seamus' first DA meeting, and
he did not succeed producing it).

Incidentally I wonder how Harry intended teaching them Patronus using
a boggart. The boggart turns into what the person facing them fears
most, which for Harry had been the dementors, but not so for other
people. Had he brought in a boggart, and people tried to practice with
it, it would not turn into a dementor, unless it was Harry facing it.
So how could it work?

Salit
(picturing Hermione sending her Patronus to charge the boggart
masquerading as Professor McGonagal giving her a "D" grade... :-))