What happens to body after dementor kiss ?

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 79422

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "princesspeaette" 
<princesspeaette at y...> wrote:
> Sam:
> >Sorry if this was asked before but what happens to the bodies of 
> >those who have received the dementor's kiss ? are they dead? are 
> >they buried ? are they organ donors ? soylent green ?  couldnt 
find 
> >a cite on this in canon ...
> 
> 
> 
> PoA pg 247 US hardcover:
> 
> "They call it the Dementor's Kiss, " said Lupin, with a slightly 
> twisted smile. "It's what the dementors do to those they wish to 
> destroy utterly.  I suppose there must be some kind of mouth under 
> there, because they clamp their jaws upon the mouth of the victim - 
> and suck out his soul."
> 
> Harry accidentally spat out a bit of butterbeer.
> 
> "What - they kill- ?"
> 
> "Oh no," said Lupin.  "Much worse than that.  You can exist without 
> your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still 
> working.  But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, 
no... 
> anything. There's no chance at all of recovery.  You'll just - 
> exist.  As an empty shell.  And your soul is gone forever... lost."
> 
> 
> Sounds pretty awful to me.
> 
> ~Margaret

I got the impression that these souless people became dementors 
themselves.  It would make sense.  Dememtors feed off the emotions of 
others.  Being souless themselves, they would want to retrieve that 
from others, feed off it to nourish their own lack of emotions now 
that they are incapable of feeling.  That would also be the reason 
that they suck the souls of others.  IMO, when the dementors first 
came into being, the "kiss" was an attempt to regain a soul.  Over 
time, it had become the punishment that is appears to be.  Though a 
dementor still has a brain, I don't think they have a vast 
intelligence.  They can communicate, and take orders, but I think 
they react on an instinctive level.  Thus their appearance at 
Quidditch match.  So much raw emotion drew them to feed.

As to their physical appearance, isn't the expression "the eyes are 
the windows to the soul" of some significance.  Since they no longer 
have a soul, wouldn't their eyes be useless?  Losing 
their "humanity", their physical appearance deteriorates.  They begin 
to decay.  The description of the dementor's hand in PoA certainly 
reminded me of decaying flesh.

Well, that's just my opinion...
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