[HPforGrownups] Re: Dementors (was: Not So Faithful (was: Re: The Imperius Curse

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3002

Rita Winston wrote:

> Oh. It never occurred to me to wonder if the Dementors might have
> gone easier on Death Eaters (Sirius did mention numbers of Death
> Eaters crying out in their Dementor-induced nightmares and
> eventually dying of depression).

Yeah, but that's a side effect of being anywhere around them, kind of like
we produce carbon dioxide as a by-product of breathing. No human can
survive dementors too long; by "go easy" I meant sort of "not
intentionally preying," or turning a blind (non)eye to the two known
escapes.

> Instead, I recently have been
> wondering how could Death Eaters ally with Dementors when Death
> Eaters are [I assumed!] as vulnerable to having first their
> happiness and then their hopefulness and then their sanity sucked out
> of them as ordinary wizarding folk and Muggle folk. They probably
> won't affect V himself, but his human-ish followers, attempting to
> work together with Dementors, will become ineffectual and then dead.

I doubt they'd work together with them. Voldemort probably'd just sic them
on various victims.

--Amanda