Order Communication

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 132854

potioncat wrote:
> JKR has answered the FAQ Poll. How doe the Order communicate? won.
> She expresses surprise at that and says the other two questions have
> such interesting answers! Now, what were those questions??? She also
> says they will be answered in book 6 which is, I think, what most of
> us thought in the first place.
>
> I thought the answer to this was pretty interesting. The Order
> members use their Patronuses. DD is the only who knows how to use
> them this way and he taught the spell to the members. She gives some
> other information too.
>
> So, without doing so, she answered some other questions:
> Can Snape conjure a Patronus? Many readers suspected he couldn't. Of
> course now the new question is "What is Snape's happy thought?"
>
> There was also some doubt about Lupin being able to conjure a
> corporal Patronus. But this would indicate that he can.
>
> I will presume however, that neither Hagrid nor Mrs. Figg
> can....although it would be interesting if DD taught Hagrid how to.
>
> Something new to discuss just as time is running out...
> Potioncat


vmonte:

So does anyone think that the ghosty like thing that is leaving the 
house (artwork on back side of HBP cover) through the window is a 
patronus? 

Does anyone think that Snape's patronus is a bat?  

Vivian