The Azkaban Effect On Hardened Criminals

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 45562

> The Dementors feed on joy and other good emotions, leaving their 
victim 
> paralyzed by depression. What if an incarcerated person has little 
or no 
> emotional content that the Dementors can feed on?
> 
> SO, inmates like the LeStranges (who, as far as we know at the end 
of GoF, 
> are still alive) may also have found ways to remain sane in 
Azkaban. I'm 
> very much afraid that they will come out far more evil than when 
they went 
> in.

Oh, I'm sure somehow the LeStranges, or at least Mrs., will get out 
of Azkaban somehow before the series is over. And, they may have 
stayed sane the same way that Sirius did.  Not by focusing on their 
innocence, but perhaps by focusing on how horrible and unfair life 
was - they had almost completed their mission for WW domination with 
Voldie, and then that damn baby destroys him in the wreckage of the 
Potters' house.  So, sure, they could use their anger to maintain 
their sanity.

Of course, if you've earned all your DE merit badges, some of the 
best times of your life may have been spent murdering, torturing, 
pillaging and generally creating mayhem.  If this is your idea of 
what makes life worth living, would the Dementors be able to discern 
how twisted those emotions are?  Or could they feed on those emotions 
anyway, because to a DE, those *are* happy memories?

Marianne