Patronus

“His Patronus is a lynx, we saw it at the wedding, remember?”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

“I still say I saw a stag Patronus!” shouted the first Death Eater.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

If your decision is between having your soul sucked out in agony, or revealing to the world that your Patronus is a yellow-faced pocket gopher, well, I know what choice I'd make, but I've never been that attached to my soul anyway.

Harry Potter Spells: The Best and Worst in Hexes and Curses 2007

What *did* confuse me in the movie was why on Earth Harry thought the beautiful glowing stag produced by the Patronus was his dad.

News from the House of Sticks - 2004

"His Patronus is a lynx, we saw it at the wedding, remember?

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

I like the idea of Dumbledore rising from the ashes like a Pheonix, but I don’t recall his Patronus charm ever being revealed as a Pheonix.

Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005

Harry's most significant achievement is to locate a magical sword, but that happens only because a ghostly stag a "Patronus", I'm told pops up and leads him straight to it.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Professor Lupin continued, "The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon -- hope, happiness, the desire to survive -- but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can't hurt it.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

The plotting is one of the many reasons why I completely and utterly adore JKR's books (even though I can't remember how to spell Patronus, as Debra Hamel pointed out).

Writing Maxine 2009

[Here in my own archdiocese of Berlin, to which Western Pomerania still belongs and whose Patronus æquiprincipalis St. Otto is, his feast is kept on 30 June.]

Catholic Bamberg: The Church of St. Getreu 2009