[HPforGrownups] Re: Dementors kiss

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 59030


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'.


Grace:

Ah, but you assume that dogs have no soul.  I rescue dogs, retrain them and
know them pretty well.    They think, they feel, and the breed I rescue has
the ability to reason like a 10-12 year old child. I think they *do* have a
soul.  It just isn't a human's soul.

It could be that a person kissed by a Dementor is more dangerous.  We don't
know what happens to them after the kiss, do we?  I would think a person
without a soul has nothing to lose and therefore cares about little.
Sociopathic; the axe murderer, serial killer... without a soul and without a
heart.  That sounds pretty scary to me.