Was Harry designed as the Anti-LV weapon ?

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 117124


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
> In a message dated 11/2/2004 12:34:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> arrowsmithbt at b... writes:
> Meanwhile DD arranges for him to have extremely useful extra lessons
> (not given to *any* other student - Patronus! and Occlumency) without
> bothering to give him the whole story.
> *************************************************************************
> 
> Chancie:
> While I can see your point in Occlumency, do we know that DD had 
> Lupin teach Harry "Expecto Patronum"?  I was under the impression 
> that Lupin taught Harry that on his own to help Harry, Unlike the 
> ordered lessons Snape gave.  Then again I could be wrong!
> 
> Chancie~who definatly knows that if she is wrong, it wouldn't 
> be the first time (or the last for that matter!)


Who cares about being wrong?  Not I - and nobody else should either.

But -  the Patronus.
Dementors camped outside the school gates, on the Express - all
because Black had escaped *before* term started and was expected
to turn up at Hogwarts.

No co-incidence then that a friend of Harry's parents who was also
a friend of Sirius' turns up as DADA (a post notoriously difficult to
fill) by a prof. who owes DD a *big* favour - DD kept his condition
a secret when he was a  student and keeps it a secret now. 

Originally I think this was because Lupin was probably the one
person who was acceptable to, could talk to, all parties without
getting zapped on sight. Of course after the episode on the train
and the obvious and exaggerated effect of Dementors on Harry, he
became very  useful as a 'trainer' too.

DD obviously knew what was going on with the Patronus classes
otherwise he would have been crazy to give Harry the Timeturner
to enable him to go back and save himself.

Even if DD didn't arrange for Harry to have the classes, he knew
about them and said nothing. And by the traditions of the
Common Law "silence gives consent".

Some may say that I'm stretching a bit from there to 'arranging'
classes - but I have a  very high  regard for DD's sneakiness.

Kneasy