Dumbledore: Patronus and Dementors (specifically Snape's)

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No: HPFGUIDX 173825

Claire
> > "jenny: How did snape keep his patronus secret from the rest of
> > the order?
> > 
> > J.K. Rowling: He was careful not to use the talking Patronus means
> > of communication with them. This was not difficult, as his
> > particular job within the Order, ie, as spy, meant that sending
> > a Patronus to any of them might have given away his true
> > allegiance."
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> That makes it canon, I guess. But I wonder if JKR meant that Snape 
> didn't use the Patronus to communicate with the Order *after* he 
> killed DD, or he had never used it? I also wonder if she intended 
> this all along, or made it up afterwards.

Juli: The thing is, I remember in OoP, right after Sirius was killed, 
when Dumbledore and Harry are talking in his office, and Harry is 
trying to blame Sirius' death on Snape and Dumbledore says "After 
professor Snape realized you hadn't returned from the forbidden forest 
with Umbridge, he contacted the OoP, and may I say they have much 
better means of communication that Umbridge's fire place" 
(paraphrasing). I always asumed he was talking about the patronuses. 
It's weird... So how did Snape contacted Sirius and the others? I'm 
sure it was a patronus. I'm sure Remus and Sirius would have made the 
connection between Lily's and Snape's patronuses, then they would have 
known he was in love with Lily after all this time. What difference 
would it have made anyway? It's all so confusing...