But if you ever need to fight Dementors, the secret is written here, cryptically, so that if someone doesn’t know it’s about Dementors and the Patronus Charm, they won’t know what it means...
Shouldn’t Hermione have read that note the moment she realized she would be arrested and had a chance of being sent to Azkaban?
Given that Hermione’s recent mental processes have essentially been put through a cheese shredder by various magic spells, I’m not sure such a moment actually occurred.
If she had, the Veratiserum would have forced her to volunteer that information. She was being asked about her actions before and after allegedly attempting to kill Draco. If it is the memebomb some of us think it to be, it would have come up since then.
If that secret gets out, it has to happen in a relatively controlled fashion, for story reasons. Dumbledore can’t find out about it, because he has to keep is patronus so it can recognize Harry’s.
From that note:
Shouldn’t Hermione have read that note the moment she realized she would be arrested and had a chance of being sent to Azkaban?
Given that Hermione’s recent mental processes have essentially been put through a cheese shredder by various magic spells, I’m not sure such a moment actually occurred.
If she had, the Veratiserum would have forced her to volunteer that information. She was being asked about her actions before and after allegedly attempting to kill Draco. If it is the memebomb some of us think it to be, it would have come up since then.
If that secret gets out, it has to happen in a relatively controlled fashion, for story reasons. Dumbledore can’t find out about it, because he has to keep is patronus so it can recognize Harry’s.