Dementors/ Quidditch

[random_monkey0_0]

No: HPFGUIDX 41069

Richelle Votaw wrote:

> First, the dementors DO feed on happiness.  To be exact, "hope, 
happiness,
> and the desire to survive."  I found it in PoA today (U.S. paperback 
edition
> Chapter 12 page 237):
> 
> Professor Lupin continued, "The Patronus is a kind of positive 
force, a
> projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon--hope, 
happiness,
> the desire to survive--but it cannot feel
> despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can't hurt it."
> 
Whoah, I just realized how very interesting this statement is. If 
Dememntors feed on happiness, and the Patronus is Happiness, then the 
dememtors should be able to basically destroy it, right? Because if 
they take the happiness, there's nothing left. So perhaps it's more 
complicated than that. Maybe it's sort of like decay: The Dementors 
break happiness down into despair, and give it off back to their 
victims. This still doesn't explain everything, though.

The Random Monkey, who spent the last six months being followed by a 
dementor.