Dealing with Dementors: Harry v Snape, Love v Happy

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Valky wrote:
 >snip<
> 
> This could be the difference between Snapes method and Harry's method.
> Harry is possibly again relating in his Dementor Essay that he found
> it useful to draw on this inner sense of self-worth and belief. A kind
> of thing I can't really imagine Snape actually able to find out for
> himself, being somewhat aprroval/recgnition seeking, himself. So Snape
> compensates his lack of self-belief with some other concept, but Harry
> disagrees and argues, hey it works for me when I feel this way.. etc.



Potioncat:
So it could be that rather than having a completely different spell, 
Snape has a different approach to conjuring a Patronus. Good idea!

I thought it was an interesting aside. Harry writing an essay 
disagreeing with Snape's approach. Very teenager...like writing an 
essay in social studies that counters the establishment's view.

It also made a nice contrast again, to how eager Harry accepts the 
Prince's ideas when the Prince offers a different way of doing 
something, but how resistent he is to Snape's way of doing things.