[HPforGrownups] motorbike - Dementors - Patronus

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 17059

MOTORBIKE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amy Z [mailto:aiz24 at hotmail.com]

> Please, please, can Sirius come pick Harry up at 4 Privet Drive on his 
> motorbike sometime?  I know a squad of Ministry workers will have to 
> follow behind to do memory charms, but I so want to see Vernon's face 
> when a flying motorbike lands on his roof.

I'd suggest that Sirius should be cleared first. ;) You don't want him
get kissed by a Dementor right afterwards, do you? But I have always
dreamed of a scene where Sirius visits the Dursleys and tells Vernon
and Petunia what he thinks about the way they treat his godson...

DEMENTORS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amy Z [mailto:aiz24 at hotmail.com]

> I wonder what the others hear and see when the Dementors are near?  
> Ron, Hermione, Neville, Draco, Fred, George?  And Lupin, who subjects 
> himself to it repeatedly when training Harry?

My take on the Dementors is that they stir up traumatic memories
(yes, I know we have discussed this before).  It makes sense. Harry
has witnessed his parents being killed by Voldemort as a baby.
Although he doesn't remember it consciously, the memory *is* there
and the Dementors have the power to bring it back. Neville might
have watched his parents being tortured, and although he has
forgotten it or his memory might have been modified, I think he
will relive this scene when face to a Dementor. He was quite shaken
in the train, too. Ginny was in the chamber of secrets, I'd say this
absolutely qualifies as a traumatic memory. She was affected by the
Dementor in the train, too. Lupin might see some horrors he has
witnessed while he was fighting Voldemort during VWI, but I think
they will make him relive the moment when he was bitten by a 
werewolf. Think of his boggart which is the Moon. I'm quite sure
about what Sirius saw when the Dementors surrounded him near
the lake. He collapsed although he had been around Dementors
for twelve years. I don't know for the others, though. Maybe Ron
and Hermione just collapsed because there were too many Dementors,
that seems to affect anyone because they suck all your happy memories
out of you.

PATRONUS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hardenbrook [mailto:DaveH47 at mindspring.com]

> What about Sirius?  I like to imagine his is a mermaid, because
> that's what I think mine would be.

A mermaid? LOL! No seriously... I think his Patronus would take
the same form as his animagus form, it would be a giant dog that
looks like a grim. The Patronus comes from within the wizard who
conjures it, and the animagus form reflects the personality of  the
wizard, too, IMO.

> I have no idea what Dumbledore's is ( Socks?? :) )...

My bet is on a phoenix. Just a gut feeling.

Monika

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