I love my advisor.
My professor was asked if I needed an extension by the people in charge of the Independent project (my presentation of which, by the way, is this Friday--wish me luck!!). Without asking me, he simply said that it would be easier on me most likely if I was given an extension until Monday. XD Which I am most grateful for, as I was panicking earlier this morning about being able to finish the story AND the essay in time! By Monday should hopefully be more than enough time to get everything finished. So yay for my awesome advisor who I now love even more.
Completely random thought that has been bugging me for the past couple of days: why is it that Remus Lupin, who was considered one of if not the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, as well as one of the most powerful members of the Order of the Phoenix, one of the major side characters of the series, as well as the person who personally taught Harry how to perform the Patronus Charm--why is it we never find out what coperal form his patronus takes???
He can obviously perform one (or at least we are definitely led to believe he can given he taught Harry and seemed to be fairly informed on how to go about producing one, and members of the Order of the Phoenix are mentioned having a secret means of communication through their coperal forms of patronus's), so why do we never get to see it? We can assume Sirius's is a dog, since it seems to go hand in hand that a person's animagus form doubles as their patronus (or it is the case of Professor McGonagall and James Potter at least, and since a Patronus is supposed to be a reflection of a person's inner self which is also the basis for the form an animagus takes--which makes me laugh picturing Rita Skeeter defending herself against dementors with a beetle for a patronus...). I don't think though that this would mean his patronus is a wolf, since werewolves differ from animagi, and I don't think his true inner self would have that particular form since he has such bad feelings associated with being a werewolf. Although since Tonks's patronus changed to a werewolf, it does suggest that could possibly be his patronus since Snape's mirrored Lily's because he was in love with her, but then again Lily and James were in love and their patronus's didn't mimic each other (although they were both in the deer family...) and neither did Ginny and Harry's. But I really don't think Remus's true inner self would be a werewolf, because that would suggest that the lyncathropy was all there was to him and I doubt that's how JKR wanted us to see him.
And we know Dumbledore's (phoenix), McGonagall's (cat), Tonk's (werewolf, although I'd like to know what it formerly was), Snape's (doe), James Potter's (stag), Lily Potter's (doe), Kingsley's (lynx), Arthur Weasley's (weasel), UMBRIDGE'S (cat), several members of Dumbledore's Army--but we don't know the form of patronus of the guy who first introduced the charm to us? How is that fair? :(
And for that matter, I'd also be interested in what memory he choses to conjure one. XD Partially because I'm fairly certain it's his first full moon spent with his friends, and not anything really to do with Tonks...but seriously, I wonder why Harry never asked him any of these questions or why simply they weren't answered over the course of the story since HE was the one who introduced the spell in the first place!
I guess I can just hope everyone (who is capable of performing the charm)'s corperal patronus forms will be revealed in that encyclopedia JKR's working on...because it's really not fair to Lupin...
Completely random thought that has been bugging me for the past couple of days: why is it that Remus Lupin, who was considered one of if not the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, as well as one of the most powerful members of the Order of the Phoenix, one of the major side characters of the series, as well as the person who personally taught Harry how to perform the Patronus Charm--why is it we never find out what coperal form his patronus takes???
He can obviously perform one (or at least we are definitely led to believe he can given he taught Harry and seemed to be fairly informed on how to go about producing one, and members of the Order of the Phoenix are mentioned having a secret means of communication through their coperal forms of patronus's), so why do we never get to see it? We can assume Sirius's is a dog, since it seems to go hand in hand that a person's animagus form doubles as their patronus (or it is the case of Professor McGonagall and James Potter at least, and since a Patronus is supposed to be a reflection of a person's inner self which is also the basis for the form an animagus takes--which makes me laugh picturing Rita Skeeter defending herself against dementors with a beetle for a patronus...). I don't think though that this would mean his patronus is a wolf, since werewolves differ from animagi, and I don't think his true inner self would have that particular form since he has such bad feelings associated with being a werewolf. Although since Tonks's patronus changed to a werewolf, it does suggest that could possibly be his patronus since Snape's mirrored Lily's because he was in love with her, but then again Lily and James were in love and their patronus's didn't mimic each other (although they were both in the deer family...) and neither did Ginny and Harry's. But I really don't think Remus's true inner self would be a werewolf, because that would suggest that the lyncathropy was all there was to him and I doubt that's how JKR wanted us to see him.
And we know Dumbledore's (phoenix), McGonagall's (cat), Tonk's (werewolf, although I'd like to know what it formerly was), Snape's (doe), James Potter's (stag), Lily Potter's (doe), Kingsley's (lynx), Arthur Weasley's (weasel), UMBRIDGE'S (cat), several members of Dumbledore's Army--but we don't know the form of patronus of the guy who first introduced the charm to us? How is that fair? :(
And for that matter, I'd also be interested in what memory he choses to conjure one. XD Partially because I'm fairly certain it's his first full moon spent with his friends, and not anything really to do with Tonks...but seriously, I wonder why Harry never asked him any of these questions or why simply they weren't answered over the course of the story since HE was the one who introduced the spell in the first place!
I guess I can just hope everyone (who is capable of performing the charm)'s corperal patronus forms will be revealed in that encyclopedia JKR's working on...because it's really not fair to Lupin...