[HPforGrownups] Re: Dementors -- talking?

[Deeblite]

No: HPFGUIDX 26307

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 22:26, you wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy C.L." <mindyatime at j...> wrote:
> > I am just reading my brand spankin' new copy of the POA in paperback
> > and I was struck by something in one of the earlier chapters -- it
> > was something to the effect that the Azkaban guards told the MOM
> > officials that Sirius Black was muttering in his sleep, "He's at
> > Hogwarts, He's at Hogwarts." I thought that the dementors can't
> > talk!!! Can they? Or perhaps only to the MOM?
>
> Yep, noticed that too when I first read the book and thought it was
> too bad: there's something so much more chilling about silent
> villains.  But I suppose it's almost as chilling that they can talk,
> but simply choose not to.  Anyway, I think we have to assume from this
> that they can, unless there are other Azkaban guards that are not
> Dementors--for which there is basically no evidence that I'm aware of.
>

It's possible the dementors "told" the MoM through some other means of 
communication (not talking).
-- 
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