Nature of a Patronus / Snape's Patronus

[whtwitch91]

No: HPFGUIDX 153442

Lilygale wrote:
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>This got me thing about how appropriate a spider might be as
Snape's patronus.<

I, too, think that Snape's patronus is a spider.  The clue that led
me to this concluson is in GoF, chapter 31 in the sphinx's riddle,
"First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in
secrets and tells naught but lies..."

This leads us to a realy interesting point to ponder.  In HBP,
chapter 4 we see Harry and DD standng in the Weasley's broom shed.
DD says, "There are only two people in the whole world who know the
full contents of the prophecy ... and they are both standing in this
smelly, spidery broom shed." A spider is crawling on DD's hat. I
believe this is SS, and this is what Jo was referring to when she
said telling us Snape's patronus would give too much away.

I can only assume from this that Harry has not been told the full
prophecy.  He saw Trelawney speak the prophecy, but DD had been
poking in his pensieve immediately before (and not in the same
manner he used to conjure up the image of Caratacus Burke's memory
of the purchase of the Slytherin locket). DD said that Slughorn's
tampering with the horcrux memory was crude; we have every reason to
believe that DD's wouldn't be.

If something was left out of that prophecy revealed to Harry, the
only thing I can think of would be very devastating to Harry indeed,
and that would be a prediction of his death.  Perhaps that is what
the centaurs were referring to in CoS in such an oblique manner.

This is such a grim thought.  Yet let me say that although I believe
that Harry will die in Book 7, he will be brought back.  Somehow
Harry's death would not be a suitable and satisfying conclusion to
these marvelous books and I do not think that Jo intends to go there.

Sue