the dementor's kiss / quiddich in OOP

[i_am_erasmas]

No: HPFGUIDX 41064

I'm thinking maybe one has had to actually experience depression to 
understand dementors. Depression is something very different from 
sadness; a depressed person really feels like all good thoughts have 
been sucked out of them, and they are left to dwell on their horrible 
thoughts. In one of the more insightful interviews:

http://cbc.ca/programs/sites/hottype_rowlingcomplete.html

Rowling confirms that she sees the dementors as a personification of 
depression, though she says that when she wrote them she didn't 
realise what she was up to. This description corresponds much more 
closely to what Jodi wrote:

>>The description of, "the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in 
decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of the 
air around them" didn't make me think of uninhabited areas at all, 
but rather places like run-down, crime-ridden housing estates full of 
people trapped in poverty. In fact this is one of my favourite parts 
of the books, for the way it links the WW with our own world, 
offering an explanation for the despair and depression in these 
places.<<

than others, that feel that dementors feed on the despair that is 
left once the happy thoughts are sucked away. Whether they are 
actually nourished by the happy thoughts is another story. All we 
really see is the effect of their presence. When it comes to feeding, 
I think they eat slime and sludge and other things little boys are 
made of. I'd better stop before someone quotes Ron at me: "Right 
little ray of sunshine, aren't you?" 

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Now quiddich:

Claudia wrote:
>>But who'd be really a surprising captain? The only thing that would 
really surprise me is if it were the new keeper... If the Weasley-
twins put just half as much work into Quidditch as they do with their 
pranks they could come up with some amazing tactics. And the 3 
girls... Well, it would be time a girl/woman took the center-stage in 
the HP-books. <<

My speculation, which has no basis in anything but gut feeling, is 
Ginny. I think OOP is going to have try-outs early on, and it's time 
for Ginny to spread her wings and show her strength. I think both 
Ginny and Molly Weasley are going to be full of surprises for the 
remainder of the series. Might be a hard thing for Ron to accept if 
he doesn't also make the team, but that could also serve it's own 
funcions in the plot. I think before the end Ron is going to do 
something that brings him out of the shadows of his brothers, but 
what he does won't be anything like what he pictured in the mirror in 
book 1. Quiddich is going to be in the books to the end. Rowling 
created quiddich as a focal point to wizarding society, and did a 
smashing job of it. Its part of the magic that holds the plot 
together, that makes the wizarding world plausible. 

Erasmas