Patronus

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190459

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

Pippin:
> You are probably banging yourself on the forehead right now, because in fact we do know McGonagall's patronus, as you probably remembered right after you hit "send."  It is a cat with spectacle markings, similar to her animagus. She conjured it, or rather them, to serve as messengers just after Harry revealed himself in DH. Which leads to the theory that the animagus form and the patronus form must be related.
 
> However there's no automatic connection between them, because we are told that no one can know what their animagus form will be until they've mastered the spell, and that wouldn't be true if you could find out by learning to conjure your patronus. 

Geoff:
One example doesn't necessarily prove a general relationship. One 
swallow doesn't make a summer.

My main point was actually that some people jumped to the wrong 
conclusion that Harry and James shared a similar Patronus and there 
definitely isn't any canon evidence for that.

However, it would be interesting to know how much control a wizard
has over their Animagus form.