The DD Brothers and The Dementors

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 81297

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Paula Gaon <paulag5777 at y...> wrote:

> ---Alshain---
> 
> Personally I believe that the task to somehow neutralise the Dementors
> is going to Remus Lupin and that it's going to be fairly important
> fairly soon. Perhaps one of the main themes of the sixth book. 
> 
> ---Paula---
> 
> Why do you think this?  What hints do you find in canon?  Would
really be interested to know.
>  
> Paula

Hello, Paula,
I don't really have hard canon evidence for much of this theory.
Mainly it's just intuition and logic.

In the third book, Lupin and dementors are introduced on the Hogwarts
Express, almost simultaneously which I don't think is a coincidence,
and it seems like everything that happens to Harry on the Express is
important later on.

PS: Ron, Dumbledore (on a collector's card that also mentions Nicolas
Flamel), Neville, Hermione, Draco.
CoS: Hmmm, they weren't actually on the school train, so I'll skip this.
PoA: Lupin and the Dementors
GoF: Durmstrang, BEauxbatons and the Triwizard Tournament
OoP: Luna Lovegood, the Quibbler, Sirius's cover blown, a stray
comment from Ron about making people write lines in detention (and I
don't think it's a coincidence that everyone in the compartment ends
up in the rescue mission to the MoM)

While Lupin isn't exactly comfortable around Dementors he can function
around them, though many qualified wizards have trouble with the
Patronus charm, he seems to be able to perform it well enough to drive
away a Dementor, and he teaches it to Harry (and Harry passes on the
knowledge to the DA group -- I think this is a fairly important clue.)
As well (this is just a hunch again) it seems like Lupin knows more
about them in PoA than he wants to let on. 
He's a Member of the Order and currently unemployed, which means he
has time to research a way of getting the Dementors out of the way. He
has the kind of personality that seems to go well with Research and
Development, too.

(And -- this is going to sound terrifying -- in Rowling's crusade to
deprive Harry of father figures, Lupin finding a way to take out the
Dementors and then succumbing to The Kiss would be rather a neat piece
of irony.)

Now that the Dementors have joined Voldemort we can assume that they
won't stop short of the Kiss, which is a terrible weapon. If there
ever is a large-scale battle, Voldemort can send in his Dementors to
feed first and then wipe up the rest with just a handful of his
minions. (Yes, Harry has once driven off a hundred Dementors, but he
can't be on all places at once.) Even the terror they inspire are a
weapon in itself, who wouldn't do anything to save his soul?  

If The Good Guys manage to neutralise the Dementors, Voldemort will
suffer a great blow, and the sooner the better I say. He's horrible
enough without that kind of allies. And the world would be a better
one without the Dementoids.

Anyway that's my story and I'm sticking to it, as Steve says.
Alshain