# HP Question: What Would Your Patronus Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785 "2007-08-24T17:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/101 "2007-08-27T21:34:15Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] T-Rex T-100 Pretty much anything that begins with “T-” [/QUOTE] T-Zebra? ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/102 "2007-08-28T00:16:51Z")
A dalmatian. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/103 "2007-08-28T01:22:09Z")
Mine would definitely be a bighorn sheep. But you know what would be really cool? A dozen wizards/witches who each had a badger as their Patronus, [sequentially summoning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxR7rTYuSI) their Patronuses in a green field. ::_D&R_:: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/104 "2007-08-28T03:54:28Z")
It’s even got Slytherin in there! (love the badger song) I’d like to be in charge of handing out Patronuses (patroni?). I’d need a Big Book of Animals to help me, though… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/105 "2007-08-28T05:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] But you know what would be really cool? A dozen wizards/witches who each had a badger as their Patronus, [sequentially summoning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxR7rTYuSI) their Patronuses in a green field. [/QUOTE] Badgers? _Badgers???_ We don’t need no stinking badgers! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/106 "2007-08-28T05:39:53Z")
[Cthulhu](http://www.tegehel.org/graphics/painting/the_giant_cthulhu6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785/107 "2007-08-28T05:40:59Z")
If it were up to me, it would definitely be a member of the Mustelidae family, who pound for pound are pretty tough and scary creatures, like a [stoat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat), a [sable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable) or a [marten](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Marten). Of course, if it were my true totem animal, it would more likely be a [sloth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-question-what-would-your-patronus-be/416785.md?page=5)