Chapter 9 POA Summary

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 19136

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Sara Metz 
<hermionegranger.gryffindor at j...> wrote:
> Chapter 9 - Grim Defeat
> 	
> 
> 6) Why do the dementors come to the Quidditch game? Because of 
Sirius, or
> because of Harry?

Lupin explains in Chapter 10:

"Why did they have to come to the match?" said Harry bitterly.

"They're getting hungry," said Lupin coolly, shutting his briefcase 
with a snap. "Dumbledore won't let them into the school, so their 
supply of human prey has dried up.... I don't think they could resist 
the large crowd around the Quidditch field. All that excitement ... 
emotions running high... it was their idea of a feast."

 
> 6a) Why do the dementors continually go after Harry? Will this be an
> issue in one of the later books?


My guess is that Harry will become Hogwarts' #1 Pointman in battling 
dementors. In the third Triwizards task, he is easily able to 
dispatch a boggart posing as a dementor - I think this was intended 
to show that he has mastered the "Expecto Patronum" spell.  I've 
earlier speculated that at some point in the next three books, Harry 
will participate  - perhaps even lead - in a rescue mission to 
Azkaban to free good wizards held captive by Voldemort/


   - CMC