Patronus: Not Just for Dementors Anymore?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124056


"Charme":
  However, this
> brings us full circle with the Patronus: what *exactly* was the 
spell for
> before the first known record of its use against a Lethifold? What 
(or who)
> else will it repel and how?

Finwitch:

Um - considering a Lethifold is what puts the lights off etc, that 
it's at least what the Dementors wear for cloaks... Don't know if 
there's any difference between a Dementor and a Lethifold but the 
name.

About the Patronus Silver essence, as compared to others - such as 
Pensieve liquid, the ghosts...  Well, a Patronus requires a happy 
memory/thought in order to come out. The pensieve contains memories. 
A ghost is, in a way, a memory of the person who was. Voldemort 
putting that silvery hand -- well, I think it was the ghost/memory of 
the sacrificed hand. (You know the expression of 'ghost limbs' - 
feeling pain in a lost limb etc.)

Silvery  essence presents a mind/memory etc. Things that have to do 
with our 'ghost' of being. Harry's Patronus takes the form of a stag -
 his dead father's animagus. It's Harry's dead *father* we're seeing 
here... It is possible, to me, that Harry has two of them with Sirius 
dead - the Stag(his father) and a dog (Sirius).

About the spell - the tricky thing isn't about casting it (as most of 
the DA club could learn it in the Room of Requirement). The 
*advanced* thing in it is what is REQUIRED when you're facing a 
Dementor. You know, Harry *had* trouble with it, because he wasn't 
over Cedric's death - because he had trouble finding *happiness*.

With Sirius dead, and Harry still wounded about it -- I think he 
would not be able to cast a Patronus now.

Finwitch