Veiled Dementors; Was Re: The DD Brothers and The Dementors

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 81315

Alshain wrote:

> (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.)

"...rather a neat piece of irony." Ah, I am heartsick at the notion; 
have you no heart? ;-)

There has been some wondering and theorizing around what happens to 
people who have had their souls sucked out by dementors; do they 
become dementors themselves, etc. (Gak! What if *that's* what 
actually happened to the Longbottoms...and the Droobles is a clue 
about that...who knows what a soul looks like as it is removed 
<shudder> from someone...perhaps it looks like a bubble gum bubble.)

Maybe what happens to the leftover soulless shell is the wrong 
question. What happens to the *soul* a dementor sucks out of its 
victim? Does it just cease to exist? Is it *eaten*? Do dementors 
*eat* souls as Death *Eaters* (natural allies, them) etc? Or is each 
dementor a soul prison?

If Harry was hearing voices behind the veil, wasn't it soul voices? 
Luna certainly seemed to think so. If that's where the dead go, where 
souls go--then those who have been soul sucked by dementors 
are "missing in action" beyond the veil; no afterlife for that 
person. No "next great adventure," organized mind or not.

Let's round up all the dementors and push *them* through the veil; 
see if any of the souls they sucked are freed, shall we?

Sandy, thinking, yeah, Rescue Mission!