Where JKR really stole her ideas from

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No: HPFGUIDX 9390

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
 
> 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.

I could be way wrong here, and please forgive me if I am, I haven't 
read The Subtle Knife in a few months. The scene I was thinking of is 
in Subtle Knife, where Lee Scoresby has the "out of body experience" 
where he is taken to the inside of the zepplin while Stanislaus 
Grumman is meditating on protecting them during the night (the scene 
when he strikes the one zepplin with lightening, and sends the birds 
to attack the other...). Scoresby is taken to the inside of the canopy 
of one of the remaining zepplins, and witnesses a Specter attacking 
the pilot. I had the distinct impression that it was referred to as a 
kiss, or at the very least that it "lowered its mouth to the pilots 
face" or something along those lines. Am I wrong? On the hood part, 
you're right, I'm not sure what I was thinking. When I gave it a 
second thought, you're definately right, they aren't ever (that I can 
remember) described as anything other than vaguely ghostlike. My oops 
on that one.
-Mike