Lily's Patronus (WAS: Re: Patronus question again)

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 187200

> Magpie wrote:
> 
> <<We don't know Lily's Patronus.>>
> 
> The reader never sees Lily's patronus, but when Harry views Snape's last memories in the Pensieve in DH, Snape casts his doe patronus in Dumbledore's office and says something to the effect that it's the same patronus as Lily's.  So the implication is that Snape saw Lily cast her doe patronus at some point during her lifetime.

Magpie:
I don't think he does. Dumbledore suggests that Snape has grown to care for Harry. Snape angrily says, "For him? Never!" He casts his doe Patronus and Dumbledore says "After all this time?" and Snape says "Always."

Neither say he's casting Lily's Patronus. It's that his Patronus *is* Lily just as Tonks' Patronus represents Lupin. Dumbledore knows the doe=Lily.

-m