Dementors kiss

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 59015

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jodi_dgn"
> <heavenlee_spice at d...> wrote:
> > ... 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. ...edited... 
> > Whatcha  think?
> > 
> > jodi-who is breathlessly waiting for June 21st.
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Lose of the soul I think is the same as the lose of your basic
> humanity. So when you are kissed by the Dementor you go from being a
> human to being a mammal. You are reduced to living on instinct, no
> logic, few memories, and given the effects of the dementors, a not
> very happy mammal. You eat, you sleep, you sustain common 
instinctive
> survival characteristics, but thats all. You are reduced to being a
> very sad, pathetic, marginally intelligent, marginally 
functional 'dog'.

Me (delurking for a bit):
You are also apparently unable to converse with another human being 
in a meaningful way, nor do you have any memories of significant 
events - which was (at least in part) why Dumbledore was so (excuse 
my language) pissed off at Cornelius Fudge near the end of GOF -- 
Fudge's dementor kissed Barty Crouch, Jr., which effectively made 
Barty Jr. a vegetable and thus incapable of presenting any additional 
testimony about Voldemort that might be admissible in a wizarding 
court. I haven't decided yet whether Fudge is Ever So Evil. If he 
isn't, then he wins the Ostrich (not Oscar) Award.

Anne U
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