NATURE OF PATRONSUSES

[whtwitch91]

No: HPFGUIDX 156487

JustCarol wrote:
>Can you quote the canon that you nterprt as indicating that a 
>Patronus form and the animagus form are identical?<

Nowhere in the books is there a statment that the patronus and 
animagus forms are the same, but in PoA, PB Ammerican edition, pp427-
428, DD is talking to Harry about how much Harry resembles his 
father. "Your father is alive in you....How else could you produce 
that particular Patronus?" And a few sentences later DD says"Last 
night Sirius tole me all about how they because Animagi ...And then 
I remember the most unusual form your patronus took when it charged 
Mr. Malfoy..."  

DD was comparing Harry's patronus to James' Animagus form. Had he 
seen James' Patronus form? Not that we know of, but to say "You did 
seen you father last night ... Youd found him inside yourself" 
implies to me that the root source that produces both forms is one 
and the same and would produce the same form.  DD expects them to be 
the same.

Would they both change? Yes, they would have to, but it would take
a massive change in the nature of the character.

After hearing Jo's statement that DD was truly dead I realize that a 
lot of the inferences I have made about these characters and their 
possible actions in Book Seven are based on a very fagile set of 
inferences. A set a inferences led me to conclude that DD was still 
alive, and that was obviously an error. I wonder what else I got 
wrong. Maybe I'm wrong about this, too.

Sue, still reeling from the fact that DD is truly dead