More Questions and ponderings--the dementor's kiss

kittycatta angiebebb at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 16 05:20:32 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 41272

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jesta Hijinx" <jestahijinx at h...> wrote:
> 
> >I have a question that has been bothering me
> >also. I was listening to POA in my car, and Arthur and
> >Molly are arguing about whether or not Harry should
> >know about black. Fudge had said that the guards said
> >that black had been talking in his sleep saying "he's
> >at Hogwarts". Well, what puzzled me is this---- I
> >cannot recall if the dementors can talk or not. Or are
> >there other guards at Azkaban? Guardsto oversee the
> >dementors perhaps?
> >
> >Laila
> >
> >>>>>I would think that there would have to be regular wizard 
guards at Azkaban.  
> I can't quite envision how such a structure would work - because I 
would 
> htink it would get to wizard guards to work around dementors - but 
I can't 
> see the dementors doing much of the necessary administrative work.  
Food has 
> to come in from somewhere.> 
> Jesta/Felinia<<<<<
> _________________________________________________________________

Paperback American edition, PoA, page 372, the part where Sirius is 
describing how he got out of Azkaban.
"It was as if someone had lit a fire in my head, and the dementors 
couldn't destroy it. . . . It wasn't a happy feeling. . . . it was an 
obsession. . . . but it gave me strength, it cleared my mind.  So, 
one night ***when they opened my door to bring food***, I slipped 
past them as a dog. . . . it's so much harder for them to sense 
animal emotions that they were confused. . . ."  We can assume 'they' 
means the dementors, since a human guard certainly would have noticed 
a dog slipping past ( I doubt you see many dogs there ), and noticed 
the empty cell.  So, dementors can be trained to perform simple 
tasks ;-) After all, it's to their advantage to have a few hundred 
humans to feed off, however they do it.  Anyway, just thought I'd 
clear that up . . .

-Angie  (who wonders if anyone has done any research over the name 
Azkaban.  Most of the names JKR uses have some significance.  I was 
thinking a word-play on Alcatraz, but there could be a meaning other 
than that.  Any ideas?)





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