typo / Patronus / Fluxweed / Cauldron / Wand Loyalty

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187247

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady@> wrote:
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> Catlady: 
> > It seems to me that a the form of a Patronus shouldn't have to represent a person. As one creates the Patronus by recalling a happy memory, it seems to me that the form of the Patronus could represent that specific happy memory or represent one's happiness in general. As the purpose of the Patronus is protection, its form could represent what makes one feel safe.
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> Geoff:
> Yes, but I can't see Dementors being driven away by being batted round the head by a swarm of Hermione's textbooks.....
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Carol responds;

I agree with Geoff. Patronuses also need to run or fly, and, in the case of Order members, to speak, so I think that the normal form of a Patronus is just what we see in the books--some sort of animal or bird. I can imagine it taking the form of a person, too, but that would be a bit scary--rather like a ghost bursting out of someone's wand. But textbooks or inanimate objects of any sort, such as a Quidditch broom or a cauldron? I seriously doubt it.

Carol, imagining Draco with a bat Patronus representing Snape