Lupin is an honest, nasty, DISLOYAL person (who is ev...

[prefectmarcus]

No: HPFGUIDX 39425

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 05/06/02 02:52:26 GMT Daylight Time, editor at t... 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > LOON on the deck!
> Pippin:
> > Sirius chases off after Pettigrew and then, mysteriously, 
> > hundreds of Dementors appear and attack Sirius, Hermione, 
> > Harry and Ron. 
> > 
> > Think about it. There've been people wandering around the 
> > grounds all night. Snape, Fudge, MacNair, Dumbledore, Hagrid, 
> > Tt!Harry and Tt!Hermione . The Dementors don't bother any of 
> > them. Then all of a sudden there are hundreds. Why? Because 
> > werewolf!Lupin set the Dementors on our heroes. (shiver!) Can 
> > the Dementors tell when they're dealing with a human mind in a 
> > canid body? They can't.
> 
> This has alway puzzled me, too.
> They are blind.
> Sirius is apparently, when they start to approach, still in canine 
form 
> (Harry hears him howling by the lake). He didn't have long to 
transform and 
> realise that they were approaching, so I don't think they waited 
until he 
> transformed to start moving.
> So why do they focus on *him*.
> And *why* does he choose that moment to change back into human form.
> And *why* for goodness sake, doesn't he just transform back. (OK, I 
know that 
> would take a lot of effort, but he was pretty debilitated when he 
did it in 
> Azkaban, and this is a crisis, for goodness sake!)

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I've meditated on that question a bit myself.  The way I've explained 
it is that when Sirius was at Azkaban, he was just another prisoner 
among many.  Now he is the object of a massive man-hunt.  The 
Dementors are starving thanks to Dumbledore, and they are tuned into 
Sirius' vibes.  When one senses his presense, they all know about it 
and converge.

With so many of them honing in on him, thirsty for his soul, it snaps 
him out of his dog-shape.
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> 
> And another LOON point.
> Why does Lupin say that no-one knows what's under the Dementors' 
hoods except 
> the victims?
> Has no-one witnessed the Dementor's Kiss? (Ans: Yes, McGonnagall, 
Snape and 
> Fudge, for three. Were they the first?)

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Simple, Lupin doesn't know.  He can't possibly know everything about 
every dark creature or the entire history of dealing with them.  He 
like would have to study up on the fine points of the creatures he is 
lecturing on that week.

The people who has seen it happen probably do not like talking about 
it, would you?
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> 
> And another:
> 
> Why do Snape, Lupin and Harry at different points ever mention 
Sirius being 
> sent back to Azkaban, when they all know that he'll receive a 
Dementor's Kiss 
> before getting there?

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I have always thought that the dementors have permission to do it if 
they catch him.  If the MoM catches him, they can easily revoke the 
sentence.
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> 
> Eloise. 
> Off to start her day, now she's got all that off her chest.
> 

Marcus