Where JKR really stole her ideas from

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9341

Mike wrote:

>A Specter's attack consists of lowering its hood (revealing "what 
>would have been its face, had it had one") and administering a fatal 
>"kiss", in which the soul is destroyed forever. There's a really good 
>paragraph where this is described, but I'm afraid I've loaned my copy 
>of the book to a friend, so I'm unable to quote it.

Hello fellow HDM fan!  Welcome to HPforGU!

There ARE a lot of similarities between Dementors and Specters.  Both 
series suggest that they cause mental illness among those who aren't 
even aware of them (Will's mother's obsessive-compulsive disorder 
[Subtle Knife], Muggles' depression [PoA]).

I don't think there's anything about a hood or a kiss in HDM--which 
book do you think it's in?  Specters essentially do the same thing as 
a Dementor's Kiss, namely they devour souls and leave the person a 
living but empty, despair-filled shell.  But I don't recall the term 
"kiss" or any description of Specters other than their being 
ghostlike.

Damn though, I hope there isn't any REAL plagiarism either way with 
these two authors.  I love them both too much.  Probably there isn't, 
they came out too simultaneously.

Amy Z

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"I'm *not* going to be murdered," Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.
                      --HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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