[HPforGrownups] OOP Re: Dementor

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 67415


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
> wrote:
>
> > I think OoP demonstrated that Dementors are Beings rather than
> Beasts
> > -- in the very first chapter, "Dudley Demented", when a Dementor
> > approaches Harry so closely that he can smell its foul breath,
> > "a voice spoke inside his head: 'Bow to death, Harry ... it might
> > even be painless ...  I would not know ... I have never died ...'
> > That is, the Dementor uses language, which is a major part of
> > distinguishing Beings from Beasts.
>
Michal
> But that's Voldemort's voice from the graveyard in GoF, not the
> dementor's voice. I still think dementor's can, in fact, communicate
> with wizards, somehow, as they have to communicate with the MoM for
> their job at Azkaban, and they have to communicate with Dumbledore in
> PoA...

This is definitely the graveyard scene.  In PoA, Harry would always hear the
voice of his parents in the last moments of their lives.  You notice that
this time around he did not hear that at all.  Instead, he heard Voldemort.
This has replaced his parents' murder as his worst memory.  He is having
nightmares of this exact scene almost every night.  It was brought up again
about a minute before the dementors showed up by Dudley.  To me, I found
that scene fascinating because it shows that his worst memory has changed.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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