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

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 81332

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

This was my opinion about dementors from post number 79422, and I 
still stand by what I said then...

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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