Snape's Patronus

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 160850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
> If he was completely 
> unable to cast one, would he open himself up to a rather humiliating 
> retort from a fellow Order member who must know, by criticizing 
> the 'weakness' of Tonks'? She could have just replied, "At least *I* 
> have one.
>
Charles:
I'm convinced, he has one. The question is, what is it. Me being the 
Snape-hater that I am, I'd like to think it's a pygmypuff or a yorkie. 
Alas, as zgirnius points out, he does taunt Tonks. With JKR's 
reluctance to reveal his patronus, it makes me think that it would 
reveal his loyalties. Just to keep myself from having to run and hide 
from the Greasy Git Fan Club, I'll suggest first that it may be a 
phoenix, to represent DD. 

Now back to my regularly scheduled Snape bash: If Snape is a good guy 
(snort!) could his patronus possibly be a stag, representing a certain 
Marauder who saved his life? It would explain Snape's reluctance to 
deal with patronuses (patroni? Could one of you Latin experts help me 
out on this?)

If he's the evil git that I'm convinced he is, (I'm sure that his 
innocence in the previous books was a planned red herring for the end 
of book six.) his patronus might be a basilisk or other type of snake. 
I'm at a loss for what else it might be if he's ESE. Any ideas folks?

Charles, who woke up laughing this morning after a dream in which 
Snape's wand spit an attack yorkie at a flock of pissed off dementors.