Harry's Patronus

[garybec]

No: HPFGUIDX 113134

lady_galadriel14 wrote:
I was re-reading PoA and noticed an inconsistency. At the end of 
PoA, Dumbledore says something to Harry about the unusual form his 
Patronus took when it charged down Malfoy at the Quidditch match, 
and made the comment that Prongs rode again. Obviously this means 
Harry's Patronus was clearly a stag. Why then, at the end of the 
book, did Hermione seem so surprised and impressed to find out 
that Harry could produce a Patronus? Also, in the meeting at the 
Hog's 
Head in OotP, everyone present is shocked that Harry can produce a 
corporeal Patronus. Wouldn't most, if not all, of these people 
have been at that Quidditch match and seen what happened? It's hard 
to 
believe no one would have noticed, even if they didn't happen to 
be watching Harry at that moment. I think a gigantic bright silver 
 shape charging someone down would catch your eye.

Now Meri:

Its possible that noone recognized the Patronus for what it was on 
the day of the Quidditch match, mostly because as soon as Harry 
conjured it he went into a dive to catch the snitch and win the 
match. Also it is possible that some of the students at the Hog's 
Head weren't present at the match for one reason or another. Just a 
couple of thoughts. And as to Hermione being impressed, the Patronus 
conjured at the match was not done in real conditions, ie there were 
no actual dementors present. That Harry, in the face of a hundred of 
the soul sucking fiends, managed to produce a Patronus when it was 
much more difficult, is a very impressive feat indeed. 

Now Becki;

To add to Meri's thoughts, if the majority of the students have 
never studied Patroni, (Patronuses, Patronus')
then perhaps they wouldn't know what it was even if they saw it.  
Plus, Harry was on his way up, for as the crowd new, anyone could 
have conjured it up.  And even though they
were not real, Harry thought them to be real,.

But another question just came to mind.  Why would Cho, who Harry 
was playing at the time, looking at the ground to even see the fake!
dementors?  Harry was on the snitches tail, just about to capture it 
and she is looking at the ground?  Could she be cheating!Cho?

I don't really believe that but it does make you wonder...
Becki