Dementors in FB

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

No: HPFGUIDX 14389

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It's been said several times on this group that people were surprised not to
see the Dementors in FB&WTFT.  I have a dissenting view.  I think they are
in there, but in a sort of "larval form".

After reading the entry on the Lethifold -- in which JKR takes pains to
point out that they can only be repelled by the Patronus spell, and even
gives us a long anecdote to reinforce the point -- I immediately came to the
conclusion that the Dementors were in some way derived from Lethifolds.

This could have happened in one of two ways:

a) by a third party magically crosspollinating the Lethifold with another
creature (most likely a Vampire) to create a Dementor; or

b) by the Dementor being merely a Lethifold which has consumed a certain
number of victims and thus has become so much "thicker and fatter" that it
has taken on humanoid shape.

If a) is true, it might be important to ask ourselves who created the
Dementors in the first place.  Voldemort?  Grindewald?  Or some evil wizard
of the more distant past?  Might this become important later on?

Some things to ponder...
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj