Nature of a Patronus / Snape's Patronus

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 153278



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...>
wrote:
>
> Potioncat:
> > If we could only figure out what the heck a JR Terrior would
> > represent!
>
> Ceridwen:
> A friend of mine has a JRT. The dogette stands up to everybody and
> everything. She has gone after dogs much larger than herself for an
> affront to her dogly dignity. When she gets something in her craw,
> she's on it and she doesn't let it go. Words I would use to describe
> my friend's JRT: Tenacious, loyal, fearless, single-minded.
>
> If JKR got the idea for a JRT for Ron from knowing a JRT, perhaps we
> don't need to look as far as mythology or legend to find out what it
> would represent.
>
> Ceridwen.
>


Megan writes:

I agree. Ron has always been at the bottom at the totem-pole of his
family. Being the youngest (male), he has all his brothers
accomplishments and achievements pushing down on him and making it
sometimes hard to notice. JRT are small dogs and can be forgotten in the
large amount of other larger dogs. Ron has had to "bark himself to
death" to be known  and recognized. He is loyal to his friends and has
proved himself fearless in many situations. He just has to be a little
extra loud (and sometimes annoying as smaller dogs can sometimes be-
think Ron + Lav-Lav) to get noticed by others.