Patronuses and Proof

[severelysigune]

Well,

As 

Far

As 

"Proof"

Is 

Concerned -

This

Will

Serve 

As

Proof

That I am particularly uncreative when it comes to filling up spoiler 
space. My humble apologies.

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Having just digested HBP (a bit slower than most, due to travel and 
thus temporary unaccessibility of the volume in question), the JKR 
interview, and having hastily caught up with TOC, I return from a 
long bout of lurkdom to propose what is probably (since it comes from 
me) a very obvious idea - namely:

Could it be that the shape of Snape's Patronus will provide a key to 
his allegiances in Book 7? If I am not mistaken, JKR has politely 
declined to reveal the shape of Snape's Patronus because 'it would 
give too much away'. Might not this shape rather than bottled 
memories be proof of where Snape's loyalties really lie? If the 
killing of Dumbledore was forced on him against his own will, and his 
look of loathing was not directed at Dumbledore but at his own deed, 
then in all probability the death has affected him deeply - deep 
enough to change the shape of his Patronus into, say, a phoenix... It 
could be in preparation of this kind of revelation that we have been 
shown Tonks' Patronus change on the basis of deep emotion.

Total rubbish, or not?


Yours severely,
Sigune