Chapter Discussions: Chapter 8, The Hearing

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87577

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lliannanshe" 
<lliannanshe_ensueno at v...> wrote:

Lliannanshe:
> Mrs. Figg gives a very weak description of dementors
> 
> She gives a detailed description of what she felt.  This got the 
> attention of Madam Bones.  Madame Bones asks her "What did the 
> dementors do?"

Geoff:
Which is a  very valid point. Most people meeting up with Dementors 
tend to come out feeling as if they've come through a hedge backwards.
Look at Harry after his first encounter on the Hogwarts Express in 
POA; look at the incoherent state to which Dudley, as a Muggle(?) was 
reduced.

Unless you are close enough to get any sort of glimpse of their hands 
or whatever is under the hood, "big and wearing cloaks" is probably 
about the best description you can manage. And, as has been pointed 
out by someone in POA(?), if you're close enough to see what is under 
the hood, you're in dire trouble, mate!

I think bboy_mn in message 87574 was clsoe in saying that other 
things supported Mrs.Figg's avowal that she could see the things.

Not entirely on-topic, but a Happy Christmas to all fellow posters. I 
hope you get more than a hand-knitted sweater from Molly as a 
present....

Geoff