Nature of a Patronus / Snape's Patronus

[minerva_523]

No: HPFGUIDX 153753


> Kemper said:
> I have not bought into the idea of Snape being an animagus, but I think what
> Sue is suggesting is that Snape's patronus is a spider and is assuming
> naturally but without canon support that a person's corporeal patronus is
> also the form of the that person's animagus (should they become one).
>
> So what I'm inferring from what Sue is saying is that Snape is in the shed
> with Harry and Dumbledore as a spider animagus and that Dumbledore has told
> Snape about the prophecy.  It's Tricky!Dumbledore who tells the truth
> without giving all the information (which, to me, is still lying by
> omission).
>
> Again, I haven't bought into this idea, but I'm window shopping.
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Now Cacaia-
There are two mentions of Snape as an "overgrown bat"- I believe both in Sorcerer's Stone
and HBP, so I always kind of assumed Snape's Patronus was a bat. However- these are
good points about his patronus possibly being a spider (like Kemper, I'm not quite sure
that he's an animagus-and wouldn't he, if he was, be an illegal animagus?). Now that I
think about it, there are quite a few references that link him with spiders (one that
immediately comes to mind is the description of how he walked as a teenager, twitchy,
kind of like a spider)-Hmmm. interesting...Oh, and, what about his inherited dwelling, at
Spinner's End? That sort of links him to spiders too, since spiders spin webs, and are,
according to some myths, spinners of the web of life and death...
Cacaia


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