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

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 182678

Carol responds:
Surely, if Snape ever flew at Hogwarts before DH, someone would have
seen him. (Maybe he didn't do it because it seemed like a Dark power
and didn't want to arouse suspicion; maybe he didn't know how yet--if
he really learned it from "his master," it was probably after the
death of DD <SNIP>

Kamion53:
I wondered a bit about that, but in Quidditch through the Ages, JKR
start with:
"No spell yet devised enables wizards to fly unaidded in human form"
so I took it that Snape performed a very strong Levitation spell on
himself, strong enough to glide like a sugarsquirrel from the very high
Ravenclaw tower to the Hogwarts boundery.
That was the image I got at first reading, maybe because I just
disliked the image of Snape in active flight like a bat.
The connection with a bat sounded so fanficerish to me.

I also have very much trouble that Voldy would share a new found magic
with anyone at all. I neither imagine his flight as a active bird like
flagging flight, more a speedy drift on the wind like a thundercloud.