[HPforGrownups] Dementors Kiss (was Re: Crouch and the bone!)

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 17699

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> Real-To:  Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>
>
> Scott wrote:
>
> > Which leads me to a question about Dementor-kissed bodies. What
> > happens to them? I'd imagine that they go to St. Mungo's where they
> > are cared for and fed until they die. It doesn't sound like a
> > reversible condition so I'd think that once you're gone you're gone.
> > However I don't doubt that Harry will meet Crouch Jr. again. Maybe
> > he'll encounter his body in an infirmary of St. Mungo's if he ever
> > ventures there.
>
> Didn't somebody suggest, lo these many moons ago, that it is from Kiss
> victims that new Dementors are made? Because Lupin says something like
> the person kissed becomes "like the Dementors," soul-less (or something
> to that effect). I think this is likely. Creepy, but likely.
>

I did post about this at one point, and I still think it might be possible, but Fantastic Beasts gave me some food for thought on this.
Dementors are not in the book.
I hope they're not beings (I don't think they are because they don't talk, do they?), but since they're not mentioned in the book, it doesn't seem like things with the name *dementors* are beasts.
Of course they could be spirits, but if not, Dementors might be Lethifolds, which are warded off with the patronus, or they could be, as we discussed, soulless humans.


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