Snape's mission

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 15894

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., naama_gat at h... wrote:
> > Against this you have to put the Dementors' inability to figure 
out
> > that Sirius Black was transforming into a dog in Azkaban.  He 
says 
> he
> > did it a number of times and they didn't tumble to it because they
> > couldn't read the vibes or whatever you want to call them.  If 
they
> > can't discover that a prisoner is turning into an animal 
practically
> > in front of them, I think Snape can risk it.
> > 
> 
> Not to mention them being fooled by polyjuice transformation - when 
> BC Jr. was replaced by his mother in Azkaban.
> 
> Naama

It was probably easier for Mrs. Crouch to fool the Dementors.  She 
remained human and was having no small amount of despair herself.  
Her son, although she'd talked her husband into trading their places, 
was a convicted Death Eater. Her husband was horrified that their son 
had gone so astray.  And she was dying.  

The Dementors probably got a lovely bit of nasty sad vibes off her 
anyway.  

As I recall, Sirius' advantage was that a dog's mind is different 
enough from a human's that the Dementors couldn't read him.  

And I daresay the background noise of the other prisoners depression 
and despair made a good cover for our dead sexy Sirius. 

Indigo 
Sirius Fangirl. Woof!