Order Communication

[jlv230]

No: HPFGUIDX 132859

> Potioncat:
> 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.

JLV:
I remeber a discussion on this list suggesting that this was the only 
question that may *not* have been answered, which is why we chose it.

> Potioncat:
> 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.

JLV:
I thought this was interesting too! (In fact it was the first 
speculation I dared to make on this board! It was shot down by alot 
of people, though... I'm glad JKR didn't listen!)  I love the fact 
that Patronuses (although I used to say Patroni - thanks for the 
correction JKR!) have more uses than 'just' dementor repulsion. I 
would like to re-speculate that Harry's Prongs!Patronus will do 
something spectacular in book 6 or 7 to save Harry or defeat 
Voldemort. I'm sure James Potter will help Harry in the end. The 
metaphor is just too perfect (IMHO).

> 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.

JLV:
I believe we see Lupin cast a Patronus on the train in PoA. As we 
don't know about them in the book yet, it is only described as a 
silvery thing, but I took "thing" to mean object - otherwise why not 
say smoke or mist?

As for Snape's Patronus, the mind boggles. He is too much of an 
enigma for me to work it out.

> Potioncat:
> I will presume however, that neither Hagrid nor Mrs. Figg 
> can....although it would be interesting if DD taught Hagrid how to.

JLV:
We knew Mrs Figg couldn't use the method already, as it would requre 
a wand (as JKR stated some time ago on her site). I would be 
interested to see if Hagrid can - I am sure that, with enough 
practice over aperiod of time, any wizard could. The special thing 
with Harry was he learnt so young and so quickly. I doubt, however, 
Hagrid's could quite send off 100 dementors...

> Potioncat:
> Something new to discuss just as time is running out...

JLV:
Exactly. And I'm glad this question won - I think the other answers 
might have been a bit spoilery... But roll on tomorrow - I'm 
personally waitng for the Amazon.co.uk owl tomorrow.

JLV xx