Rita Skeeter / Evans family / Sirius / Wands

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 82762

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
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Fred Waldrop wrote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/82693 :
<<I do not see Petunia having heard about dementors from Lily, James
or any of the other school kids (before Harry came to stay at her
house). As LV said in GoF, pg 651 paperback, US, "The dementors will
join us... they are our natural allies..." So, if the dementors are 
LV "natral allies", and DD seems to think they will go over to LV as
soon as he ask them to, it only seems logical that they were his
followers in the "first war". And if they were LV allies, they would
not have been guarding Azkaban, unless Lily and James got married and
waited many years to have Harry. >>

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...>
To me it seem quite the contrary. To me it seems entirely logical 
that IF the Dementors had been LV's allies in the Unpleasantness, the
wizarding world would NEVER have trusted them to guard prisoners
convicted of supporting LV. To me it seems that the Dementors were
already the Azkaban guards then and LV must not have gotten around to
recruiting them as allies before his HP defeat.

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Hello all, Gred Waldrop here:
Catlady, only problem is, there is no real *hard* evidence that the 
dementors did/did not join LV in the first war.
But, seeing as how DD tells Fudge in GoF that half the WW sleeps 
badly knowing the dementors are guarding Azkaban, it would seem that 
they were followers in the first war. Plus, LV claims that he and the 
dementors were "natural allies" in GoF, which suggest they have been 
on the same sides in the past.
If we use your analogy about no one trusting the dementors *if* they 
supported LV before, how do you explain people like L. Malfoy, 
Macnair and others who supported LV, yet still had close relations 
with the MoM? It seems that in the WW a lot of folks can be fooled 
easily enough. 

Fred