Dudley Demented....

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No: HPFGUIDX 76245

--- 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

Hi Karen, 
I think in POA Lupin tells Harry that muggles feel the effects of the 
dementors too but blame it on doldrums or some such thing.  Muggles 
just don't see them.
Susan