What happens to body after dementor kiss ?

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 79423

>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 ...
> > 
Margaret:
> > 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.


>D: 
>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...



Margaret again :-) 

I really really really like this idea!  I can't believe that nothing 
like this ever occured to me!  It never occured to me to consider how 
dementors propogate their species.  But this is perfect! I especially 
like the 'eyes are the windows to the soul' part.

Dementors being attracted to people's souls to replenish their 
own "humanity" (if you can use that word and dementors in the same 
sentence).  It would explain Fudge's comment at the end of PoA "Never 
dreamed they'd try to administer the Kiss to an innocent boy" (or 
something like that)  That boy was not just any boy, it was Harry 
Potter, who Dumbledore at least, thinks will destroy Voldemort with 
love (or something like that).  Wouldn't someone with that kind of 
emotion in their heart have a particularly tempting soul for the 
dementors? Perhaps they are attracted to the strength of one's soul, 
in direct opposition to their own soulessness, like magnets with 
opposite polarities.

The frightening thing is, that if you are right (and I really think 
you are) and the dementors are now working for Voldemort, he can 
build an army.  I always assumed there was a finite number of 
dementors out there to draw from, but this would mean that Voldemort 
gets the satisfaction of (essentially) killing good guys while 
turning them into the bad guys.

 
~Margaret