[HPforGrownups] Dementors kiss

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Jodi said:

During my many reads and re-reads of the books I had always 
wondered what happened to someone who receives the dementors kiss. We 
are told they just exist, but not really what happens to them once it 
happens. On my final re-re-re-re-re (etc) read of POA befor OOTP, 
this line jumped out at me and made me think..........Lupin is 
talking to Harry on page 187 of POA(US Paperback Edition) and  
says.."Get too near a dementor and every happy memory will be sucked 
out of you. If it can, the dementor will feed on you long enough to 
reduce you to something like itself...soulless and evil."    
Soooooooo, this makes me wonder, does someone perhaps become a 
dementor once they have been kissed by one? Will we see Barty Crouch 
Jr. back as a dementor in later books? Is it that they turn into 
something "like" a dementor or actually become one? That was my 
thought at first, if just the word "soulless" had been used, but when 
you add "evil" into the mix, it could take on a new meaning. Whatcha 
think?

Nic says:
IMHO Dementor's Kiss shouldnt even exist... but thats not what its about.

I always wondered where Dementor's came from, and I think you could be right. 
 But Lupin says 'something LIKE themselves' he didnt say they will 'become 
what they are'.  I think Lupin said that to give the result description.  I just 
imagine BC Jr. to be this shell that walks around, deterioating.  Having said 
that I think what happens is, that the Dementor Kiss is given, then the 
victim, over a long period of time slowly turns fully into a dementor.  

Hmm, what does everyone else think?

Loadsa love
Nic xx


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