Patronus question again

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 187209

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> Reporting from the uninhibited island with only my Blackberry and Hermione as companions, I bring you the following question and I do realize that the answer is probably painfully obvious and I just forgot it. Is it necessary for the person to see another person's patronus for their patronus to be influenced by it and to change? I am just thinking about whole Snape/Lily thing and wondering if he ever saw her patronus? In fact do we even know (and I just forgot?) that Lily's Patronus was a Doe in the first place? I mean I know she wanted Stag and Doe to match, but this is a symbolism of Harry and Snape patronuses we know, not Lily and James' ones. I mean I think it is also to show the reader without saying much that they completed each other and were well matched, Lily and James I mean, but did it show in their own patronuses as well? Alla
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Montavilla47:

Harry tells Voldemort that Lily's patronus was a doe.  But he doesn't have
any real way of knowing that.

There's nothing in the book to suggest that Snape ever saw Lily's 
patronus.