[HPforGrownups] Each Patronus is unique

[:::: Violet ::::]

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Inge said:
   
  <<Yet Tonks' Patronus *does* change - and if one can change, then probably other Patronuses can change, too. So how does that fit with Rowling's wording "there is never any doubt which Order Member has sent it" ?>>
  
   
  Violet now:
  Being Tonks a metamorphmagus, it seems only natural that her patronus change as well. It would be as an extend to her powers. That would be my first guess. However, when Lupin says that Tonks patronus probably changed because she received a profound shock (HBP 15) it suggests that it didn't change normally (that it wasn't due to her abilities), but it can happen; that is not too unusual as we think.
  
   
  JKR's statement and the book's information leave a few questions open though:
   
  1) How profound does the shock has to be in order for a person's patronus to change?
   
  2) How do you know that a person's patronus has changed? Is there something in it that marks it as your own or is it only the shape?
   
  Perhaps, what Rowling said was that there are no two alike, all patronuses shape differently, but that's a little too far fetched to me seeing as how many wizards there are and how many animals exist (taking into consideration that the UK is not the only place where wizards lived and every wizard has a unique patronus).


~*~ Violet ~*~
  "Who knows, maybe a lightening can strike."