DH: The silver doe as Lily's patronus?+Lilly's eyes

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No: HPFGUIDX 172293

Clio
> In DH 'The prince's tale' we learn Snape's patronus is the doe. In 'A
> flaw in the plan' Harry tells Voldemort that Snape has the same
> patronus as Lily Potter.
> Odd. How does Harry know? Am I overlooking something? I can't shake
> the feeling that there was a conversation about this edited from the
> book.


When I first read the section about the doe, I immediately thought of
Lily. Since James' was a Stag, it made sense to me that Lily's, his
wife, would be the female equivalent. Maybe that's where the idea came
from.

My pressing question is: what was so important about Lily's eyes? I
thought there was supposed to be some big huge important thing about
how Harry had Lily's eyes. Dumbledore points out Harry's eyes to
Snape, but I couldn't get anything more out of it, except maybe that's
what encouraged Snape to help protect Harry?

I was totally shocked that Harry was a Horcrux, even though it made
sense. The whole "limbo" section where he was talking to Dumbledore
completely threw me off, and I don't think it was really explained
where they were, how they got there, or why Dumbledore was there too.

I feel the book spent too much time describing them running and
hiding, and should have spent more time explaining!

Bridgette