Why No Patronus Sent- WAS: Trial of Severus Snape /Harry IS Snape./A cold equation (LONG)

[Michell Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 141444

Potioncat  wrote: 
 "We've seen a Patronus cast at the beginning of HBP and it appeared to take some time to reach Hogwarts. So it is faster than an owl, but slower than floo, perhaps? But, why didn't anyone send a Patronus to the rest of the Order? Not Snape from the Tower, but McGonagall, Lupin, Bill, Tonks? No one seems to have called for backup."  <snip> 


 

CH3ed: I'm assuming that you meant why wasn't the patronus sent to OotP members outside of Hogwarts, in which case I suppose the use of patronus is only limited to a short distance (Dumbledore used his to call Hagrid in GoF, Tonks used hers to call Hagrid to open the gate for her and Harry). I could be wrong, tho, since JKR says on her website that the "more reliable method" the OotP members use to communicate is the patronus (DD taught them and only them know how to do it). 

 

I just think distance may be the limiting factor since those OotP members who went to Harry's aid at the Ministry were all at Grimmauld Place at the time Snape contacted them. They didn't use the patronus to call DD or other members, but left Kreacher to tell him what happened when he came to the headquarters.  
CH3ed.