Snape's Messenger Patronus ((was Re: Snape's Dementor lesson

Jayne jaynesmith62 at btinternet.com
Tue Apr 22 21:24:01 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 182617

--- > snip.
> > 
> > > *Dumbledore* knows the meaning of Snape's Patronus because he 
knows
> that Snape loved Lily before GoF, and Snape uses it to show him that
> his love has not diminished despite her having been dead for fifteen
> or so years
snip
. It's possible that the> Order members (or, I should say, Lupin and 
Black), while knowing that> Harry's Stag Patronus represents James, 
don't know that Lily's> Patronus was a doe and consequently don't 
recognize Snape's Patronus
> as representing Lily. Or they see it for the first time when he 
sends> the messages to 12 GP (first to determine that Sirius is okay 
and let> them know that Harry has had the vision and again to say 
that Harry> hasn't returned from the forest and they need to get to 
the MoM).> Under the circumstances, especially given their knowledge 
that Snape> hated James and their probable supposition that he 
disliked Lily as> well, based on the "Mudblood" taunt (memory being 
selective if it's> not in a Pensieve) and, more important, given the 
importance of> Snape's messages, they may have paid no attention to 
the form of his> Patronus. >> 

> In fact, aside from Lupin's explanation (or was it DD's or Sirius
> Black's?--"Sirius" memory failure here) that the Stag Patronus
> represents James and Snape's snide remarks about Tonks's new 
Patronus,
> whose significance he clearly understands, I'm not sure that anyone
> talks about Patronuses as representing anyone or anything in 
particular.  
> 
> snip
> Carol, 

The explanation that Carol gave above is great and very plausable. 
Sorry I snipped it so much.

 Snape ,it has been mentiond before had changed his patronus. Do we 
know when and what it was before.?
Could he have used his old Patronus as the people he was sending it 
too would probably not know he had changed it.?
To me the only way he could have communicated with the rest of the 
Order is by Patronus so the explanations above could fit very well

Jayne
Who wonders that if Lupin did realise , would he have said anything 
as he did not hate Snape as much as Sirius and James and IMHO was a 
very decent chap





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