Fic Update Thead 16: In Which There Are Updates

[nemonowan]

moved into the correct thread:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/48/

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

(spoiling nothing I shall say 6 words: brains, snakes, and blades of grass)

Still waiting to see what's so weird about the Patronus that it mustn't be revealed. What does it appear as, Albert Einstein? A giant "E=MC^2"? We know Draco's is normal...

It's that the Patronus is human at all, and not an animal.  The regular Patroni (Patronuses?) are animals, and are nonsentient, so don't have the same type of fear of death that humans do, and are therefore immune to dementors, which is why the Patronus spell creates an animal.  The regular version is like sticking your head in the sand and hiding from the idea death in a happy memory, while Harry's is like facing it head on and saying "We will eventually defeat you."

As Jorlem said, the point is that his patronus is an human. We were never told WHICH human, though. And that is important because while an archetipical animal can be generic for the species, for us humans every human is unique and recognizable.
I personally believe that Harry's patronus should look like the Vitruvian Man
(or else, given the color and the glow, like Dr.Manhattan ^_^ )