DH: The silver doe as Lily's patronus?

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 173103

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "patrick.jarrett" 
<pjarrett at ...> wrote:
>
> Daimauwr:
> If the Patronus is unique then the WW would soon run out of objects 
to
> imitate - considering the number of wizards and witches that have 
died
> since Hogwarts was established.
>  
> Harry has the same as his father - the Stag, therefore one must
> presume that genetically this form can be passed down through
> generations. As there is no daughter in the Potter family then 
Lily's
> patronus must be up for grabs.
> 
> 
> Patrick:
> Respectfully, presuming anything is genetically based here is 
fallible
> logic. If it were so then if Ron's patronus is a dog, then logically
> Arthur Weasley's is a dog, as is Fred, George, Bill, Percy etc.. I
> admit we're not explicitly shown a case where this is disproven, due
> to the rarity of patronuses, it seems that having such a large
> cross-over would be dubious. Also if DD and Lupin both knew James' 
was
> a stag, they would have known Harry's was going to be a stag.

Lisa:

Just to clarify here -- we don't know what James' patronus was.  He 
was an animagus and transformed into a stag, but that was not 
necessarily his patronus.  Harry's patronus stag symbolized his 
father's animagus form.