Patronus (Was :Re: Order Communication)

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No: HPFGUIDX 132883

davenclaw wrote: 
> I don't think there are enough distinct animal types for every 
> person to have their own animal.  I rather think that the patronus 
> is almost like a particular instance of that animal.  So two people 
> might have Cocker Spanial patronuses but they are different in the 
> way that two Cocker Spaniels are different.  On the other hand, 
that 
> still opens the door for confusion.  What if both Tonks and 
> McGonnagall have cat patronuses?  It might be hard to tell the 
> difference, given that they are made of silvery mist!


Potioncat:
Good questions!
Well, do I remember correctly that not everyone can even conjure a 
Patronus? 

But the bigger point being that you conjure one and only one 
Patronus, so you couldn't conjure up a stag if your Patronus was a 
cat. So someone couldn't "counterfit" a Patronus. I suppose if two 
Order members  had cat Patronuses (Yeah, I like Patroni better too.) 
they would have to say "This is Minnie..." Of course, since only the 
Order members know how to do this, maybe none of them have the same 
Patronus type.


Oh you know what would be fun? If we see Patronuses delivering 
messages in HBP but we aren't told which Order member it's from! Or 
we're given just a vague shape so we have to guess a bit...

Potioncat