[HPforGrownups] Dementors and Depression

[Michele Kerby]

No: HPFGUIDX 55265



Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 1:51:04 AM, imamommy wrote:

isn> Also, Remus told the DADA class that although Muggles cannot see 
isn> dementors, 
isn> they can feel them. Are there any examples of how Muggles feel them 
isn> or where 
isn> they feel them?

I'm gonna come out of lurk mode for awhile because this is a question
I actually know something about :)  I think depression is definitely
the way that a Muggle would feel the presence of a Dementor.  I don't
have my copy of PofA in front of me (or even nearby) but I believe
that Hagrid said that due to the Dementors in Azkaban it was
impossible to have a pleasant thought there.  One could only think of
darkness and pain.  I can't remember the exact wording, but I remember
it was as good a description of acute depression as I've ever read.

Michele (who has fought against acute depression all of her
rather long life)