Each Patronus is unique

[eggplant107]

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"julie" <juli17 at ...> wrote:

> As for Harry's Patronus changing,
> that is a possibility

Thank you.

> but I still think JKR introduced the 
> concept because Snape's Patronus will
> change in DH. [
] Harry and/or the 
> Order might trust a new Patronus of
> Snape's even while not knowing *whose*
> Patronus it is--if the unknown 
> Patronus reflects an undeniable 
> loyalty to Dumbledore then the Order
> would trust it regardless. 

I think you're probably wrong. Probably. But, but but, 
., let me
think about this for a second. Hmm, well OK
, to tell the truth I've
heard worse theories, a lot lot worse.

At one time I thought that anybody who thought Snape was a good guy
was insane, but after hearing what a brilliant man like Salman Rushdie
said about Snape I began to realize there may be things about Snape
I'm not picking up on but that other people are. I still think there
is a 51% chance you are wrong, but I no longer think you deserve to be
put in a straight jacket. And I've got to say that Patronus angle
really isn't bad, it's not bad at all.

> I'm also not quite sure what you mean about
> a changed Patronus of Harry's lending 
> ambiguity to his fate,

The Phoenix is the symbol of rebirth. I just thought that when Harry
falls into a trash compactor, or wood chipper, or blast furnace, or
whatever hideous fate awaits him at the end of book 7, I just thought
those readers who demand a happy ending might find a little bit of
consolation from that fact; not a lot but a little. 

Julie, you love Harry Potter and want him to live. Well I love him
too, but what does that really mean? If Harry lives happily ever after
you will smile when you close book 7 and a week later he will be
completely out of your thoughts. But if Harry dies, well then things
would be different. You will remember that. I want Harry to be alive
in literature a century from now; and for that to happen,
unfortunately, Harry must die.

Eggplant