Dementors kiss

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 59083

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Patricia Bullington-McGuire
<patricia at o...> wrote:

> 
>  MM ... use the Dementor's Kiss as a punishment for DEs, ..., if the
> kiss was going to make the DE *more* dangerous.  ...edited... 
> prisoner ...render him harmless to the wizarding world.  
> Leaving him with all his brains and powers but removing his 
> conscience would hardly seem to fit the bill.
> 
> ----
> Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at o...>


bboy_mn:

Maybe I'm just stating the obcvious but your post reminded me that the
Dementor's Kiss is Capital Punishment. In the wizard's world it is the
equivalent of the death sentence, but they have a loop hole, in a
manner of speaking. They have found a way to take someone's life, in
effect, destroying them, but at the same time not actually killing them. 

One could rationalize that this is a very enlightened 'death
sentence', but in some ways, it almost seems crueler than true death;
it steals away the very essense of life and leaves the body to waste
away, too die of misery and disease.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn