Re: Oh Yeah, it’s the Dementors-Veiled-Gateway-Connection-Theory !

[Someone]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Someone" 
<someoneofsomeplace at y...> wrote:
> Has anyone considered whether the origin of the dementors might 
not be 
> found in the workings of the ancient, veiled gateway? It seems to 
me 
> that the gateway separates the soul from the body of the subject, 
the 
> soul passing on to wherever it is souls go to once a person dies 
(or, 
> alternatively, becoming ensnared "within" the gateway?). The body, 
> however, separated from its soul, continues to "live on" as the 
> undead. Very similar, it can be seen, to the concept of the 
dementors. 
> The gateway was described as very old; perhaps this *is* how the 
very 
> first dementors came to inhabit the earth? 
> 
> 
> The question is, who created the archway, and was this its 
original, 
> fiendish, intention? If so, how would this benifit the architect? 
> Indeed, having accepted this connection, what other implications 
can 
> we draw from it, relevant to the plot of HP?
> 
> John.

John: 
Sorry! This post was supposed to find its way on to the main list, 
but got...misplaced.

My fault, of course.

John.