SPOILERS: First Read Rant

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip at e...> wrote:
> (To the tune of the original Doctor Who theme music)
> Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space, don't you read
> Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space, don't you read
> Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space, don't you read
> Spoilery space, spoilery space, spoilery space
> [pause]
> Wah Wah aaaaaaaahhh!
> 
> M
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> Pippin wrote:
> > When has Harry ever paid attention to Snape? It's perfectly in
> > character that he would forget the cramped handwriting --Snape's 
> > handwriting on Harry's papers tends to run more to large capital 
> > T's, I think. I do think that Harry was steered to that book on 
> > purpose./Somebody/ wanted him to have it. Notice that apart from 
> >  Ron, none of the other students in the class were unprepared. 
> > Surely they didn't all get Outstandings? Nope, definitely dodgy.
> > 
> 
> Pip:
> I presume DD must have known which OWL grades Harry got, and then 
> promptly made sure that the *Potions* master was replaced - with 
one 
> who accepted 'Exceeds Expectations' students.
> 
> And he didn't tell Harry what Slughorn taught, so Harry didn't know 
> to get the textbook and supplies. Again, presumably he must know 
> that Harry expressed the ambition to be an auror to McGonagall. But 
> why is it so important that Harry know potions?
> 
> As to the book - do you think there are charms that can be set on 
> something, so that it's given to a particular person?
> 
> 
>  
> > Pippin:
> > To show that the rot in the Ministry is systemic rather than a
> > matter of a few bad apples in the barrel. It has to be, to set up
> > the stage for ESE!Lupin. Lupin the spy on the werewolves is
> > confirmed as predicted, and notice how he said they were his
> > "equals." And he's the one who tells us the mist is because
> > the dementors are breeding, confirming his knowledge of 
> > these creatures.
> 
> Pip:
> Snape didn't like Tonk's patronus - which we now know is a 
werewolf. 
> He says it 'looks weak'. Now this could refer to how ill Lupin is - 
> but it could also signal an ESE Lupin who turns to the DE's out of 
> weakness - despair at the corruption of the WW, despair at the way 
> werewolves are treated.
> 
> Pip!Squeak
> 
> "Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not 
> known how to act?" - Severus Snape

Dont buy the patronus was a werewolf. Can you explain why JKR's 
answer to fact poll question said a person's patronus is unique and 
that is how they can trust it is from a specific person. 

Also, where in canon does it say the patronus was a werewolf. The 
picture to me looks like a horse.
Fran