Ok this may be a dumd question (Snape/Lilly)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182575

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:


> A couple of reasonable suggestions could be that Harry worked it out 
> using logic - he knew Snape loved Lily, he knew Snape's Patronus was 
> a doe, and he knew that Lily loved James, a stag Animagus. Or perhaps 
> even, having worked out this possibility thgouth logic, he remembered 
> the same of familiarity he had felt when he first encountered the 
> doe, and decided this was because it represented his mother.


zanooda:

It's probably a combination of both :-). The logical approach by itself 
doesn't prove that Lily's Patronus was a doe, it only proves that 
Snape's doe somehow represents Lily, like Carol wrote in the previous 
post.

I think that maybe Harry saw Lily's doe Patronus when he was a baby, 
and remembered it on a subconscious level. That's why the Silver Doe 
felt so familiar to him. He didn't remember it was his mother's 
Patronus right there in the forest, but later, after seeing Snape's 
memories, he put two and two together. It's a possibility, anyway :-).

On a side note - after his trip to the afterworld Harry says many other 
things that were never stated in the book before - all this stuff about 
who is the master of the Elder wand etc. I guess we are supposed to 
take everything Harry said during his last confrontation with LV as a 
truth :-).