The moment he'd heard patronus, he had nearly squealed. He now really wanted to know what his patronus was! He knew being a first year he'd never be able to get his patronus to work. Or he didn't believe he would. Maybe that was his problem, he wasn't sure about his own magic. But he wanted to at least try and do it. He wanted to see if he could see his own patronus, even if it was just a shadow. He chewed on his lip and started trying to come up with a happy thought. The first one that came to mind was seeing his birth mum's smile. It had been years and years since he'd seen it but it always warmed him all the way through every time he thought of it. He focused on the memory, focusing on his mum's face and took his wand out.

Muttering 'expecto patronum' over and over he kept focusing on the memory of his mum's face and finally did the wand movement and spoke clearly "expecto patronum" and nothing, not even a flicker of silver or anything. He bit his lip staring at his wand again. He could do this! He knew he could! Mum's was a rabbit, his mum now was a cougar and dad's was a pug. He was determined to do this!