[HPforGrownups] Harry's Patronus

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 113158

"lady_galadriel14" points out:

>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.

Yes, it probably did.  But I suspect that a) most of the students didn't 
know what it was and b) most of the people at the Quidditch match, student 
or teacher, didn't know it had come from Harry.  Those teachers who realized 
what had happened probably assumed Dumbledore had produced it.


Janet Anderson

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