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

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187215

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" <montavilla47 at ...> wrote:
 
> What else do the Patroni guard beside Dementors?  And
> wouldn't it have been a good idea for the DEs to learn that
> spell for the decades in which Dementors were guarding
> prisoners in Azkaban?


zanooda:

The prisoners don't have wands, so knowing the Patronus charm wouldn't do them any good. I'm sure Sirius knew how to conjure a Patronus, but what's the use ;-(? I wonder what his Patronus was...


> Montavilla47 wrote:
 
> Of course, there is an alternative to using a Patronus
> to protect yourself from Dementors.  We don't know what 
> it is, but we know it exists because Snape was teaching that
> alternate method in the D.A.D.A. class.


zanooda:

Most people think it's some basic Occlumency...


> Montavilla47:

> Someone mentioned using the fireplace in Umbridge's office.


zanooda:

Yes, me :-). But he couldn't have done it when he contacted Sirius for the first time, because Umbridge and the kids were still in her office.


> Montavilla47:

> I think he could also have taken advantage of the Phineas 
> Nigellus's ability to move from portrait in Hogwarts to portrait
> in Grimauld Place


zanooda:

Yes, absolutely, if Snape knew how to get inside DD's office :-).