[HPforGrownups] Re: Questions and ponderings--the dementor's kiss

[magicy2jai at cox.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 41040

Greetings all.  A very newly converted Potter-phile here, who has literally just finished re-reading Prisoner of Azkaban, and this conversation caught me:

<<"corinthum" <kkearney at students.miami.edu> said:

The description of dark, filthy places implies that dementors can often be found in uninhabited areas.  This leads me to believe they don't actually need happy thoughts to feed on.>>

If I remember correctly, when the Dementors come to the Quidditch game where Harry falls off the broom, someone (forgive me, I don't have my book here, it may have been Dumbledore) mentions that they were attracted because of all the people there and that they had been too long without human souls.  So that would seem to imply that they DO need some sort of thoughts to feed on, and it also seemed implied that they would be happy.

I hope my memory isn't failing me here.

Jai (who has been just itching to hop right in somewhere)


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