Dudley Demented....

[Karina Aleksandrova]

No: HPFGUIDX 76239

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "klmf1" <KLMF at a...> wrote:
> An observation on Dudley....
> 
> OoP- At Harry's trial on August 12th someone stated that muggles 
> can't see Dementors, but no where did I find anything about whether 
> they can *feel* them, at least not the way Dudley did (which was as 
> Wizards do).  Dudley apparently did feel them though we don't know 
if 
> he actually saw them. I'm sure this must have come up before ..... 
> Does the fact that Dudley felt the Dementors suggest that perhaps 
> he's not really a muggle?  I thought it interesting that no more 
was 
> made of this encounter in the book..... another foreshadowing snuck 
> in?
> 
> Karen F

Remus Lupin said in PoA ('Marauder's Map'), 'Dementors are among the 
foulest creatures that walk this earth. [...]Even Muggles feel their 
presence, though they can't see them.' So whether Dudley is a muggle 
or a wizard he would feel Dementors. And to me it seemed that he 
didn't see them - he ran right at one, and later he seemed to think 
it was all Harry's fault. He didn't tell his parents of cloaked 
figures, simply said 'Him', so unless he saw a Dementor before (which 
is unlikely), I assume he meant Harry.

~Carina