FUDGE IS A DE!!!!

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 78961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:

> Second in PoA, the dementors left their posts to invade the 
> Quidditch match and they seemed very interested in Harry, they were 
> all looking up at him, no one else.  Did they do this at Fudge's 
> request?  We think so. 
> 
> Third in PoA, the dementors try to administer the kiss to Harry and 
> perhaps to Hermione

I have a little pet theory on the behavior of the dementors that I 
haven't mentioned since before OoP came out.  It would give an 
alternative explanation to your points above, so here goes.

I think the dementor that searched the Hogwarts Express found Harry 
*very* interesting.  After all, Harry was the only one who fainted on 
a train carrying the entire student population of Hogwarts; even 
Ginny and Neville were not so affected.

At the Quidditch match, there was Harry, not only far out on the 
grounds but in high emotion, for the first time since school began.  
That dementor from the train got a "whiff" of him along with the 
excitement arising from everyone else and just followed his "nose."  
The other dementors came along -- after all, if one was going, they 
weren't going to miss out, and then they too focussed on the fainting 
boy.

Finally, after Lupin transformed into a werewolf and there were once 
again people out with high emotions, under cover of darkness yet, and 
Sirius Black himself right out near the lake, of course the dementors 
investigated.

And then *one* dementor closed in for the kiss.  It ignored the 
escaped convict, who was after all probably the least interesting 
wizard ever to inhabit Azkaban, for something much more satisfying.

It wanted that absolutely *delicious* young Harry Potter, who faints 
in the presence of a single dementor, to incorporate his soul into 
itself for all time.

That dementor is still out there, somewhere.

Annemehr
wondering if the similarity to the croc & Capt. Hook is an argument 
against this...