After the KISS

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No: HPFGUIDX 30545

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rucham78 at y... wrote:
> Has it ever been mentioned in canon what happens to the witch or 
> wizard who has been kissed by a Dementor? I know that the soul is 
> kissed, but does the witch remain alive? Can this witch then 
function 
> as a magic person? So you think s/he can talk/walk/so magic after 
> being kissed, or do they become vegetables? [Are they taken to St. 
> Mungo's and killed, like pulling the plug on someone who is alive 
> only by virtue of respirator?]
> It is dreadful to be KISSED as I gather from canon, but can one go 
> back and learn about magic? Become a magic person again?
> Any thoughts?
> Rucha

I'm new here, but it is my understanding that once a witch or wizard 
is kissed by a dementor, they live, but they only exist.  They have 
no powers, no memory, no nothing.  I highly doubt that after being 
kissed that a person can go back and re-learn about being magic.  
Lupin says in the third book that they only exist.  No sense of self, 
no nothing.  

Rachel