[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's Patronus

[J]

No: HPFGUIDX 160827

Steven1965aaa:
Maybe Harry is so adept at the patronus charm because its a "love" type spell -- in other words, you need some strong positive emotion to make it work really well. Just like you have to really mean it to cast an unforgivable. So that theory would mean that Snape could cast a patronus but he'd need a really good strong positive happy memory to cast a really strong patronus. Does he have a memory like that? Who knows. Maybe that type of thing is easier for Harry than for Snape. This all makes me wonder whether we will see dementors and that alternative method used in book 7. Someone like Voldemort, for all his power, might not be able to cast a patronus nearly as powerful as Harry's. 

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Jeremiah:
Well, if Voldemort can control the Dementors what do we really know about them? It has to be something more than what the Ministry believes. Not just rights or food... maybe, since they feed on human emotions, it is Snape's skill at blocking them? It would certainly deprive the Dementors of "food" and deter them. Hmm.. curious.