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

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 81323

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...>
wrote:
>

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

Al: Heart, in a gel who loved what JKR did to Snape and Sirius in OOP? 
Nah. :-) Forgot to add another neat piece of irony, BTW: in PoA, Lupin
was the one who told Harry about the Dementor's Kiss. (Allright, I'm
really a softy. Cried through the last three chapters.)

Sandy:
> 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. 

Al: I don't think soul-sucked people become Dementors, in any case.
There was an interview with Rowling (Canadian Press, Ochtober 25,
2000) where she said Dementors don't breed but grow like fungi
wherever there's decay.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/1000-canadianpress-moore.htm


Whatever a soul-sucked person is like, I think they're even worse off
then the Longbottoms. The Dementor's Kiss is definitely "cruel and
unusual punishment" and as such ought to be banned by the
International Confederation of Wizards.    

Sandy:
> 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.
> 
Al: IIK! (though I think you have a good point here) 
That'd be the worst thing in a Soulless!Remus scenario (if you happen
to be a Remus/Sirius-shipper like yours truly.) First mutual suspicion
during the first war, then twelve years spent apart, three years with
Sirius on the run, then Sirius dies and Remus's soul is taken away
from him. The poor lads don't even get to spend the afterlife together.
 
Alshain, off to find some fluffy, alternate-universe fanfic where
everybody lives happily ever after