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

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 81354

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> 
wrote:
> Donna wrote:
> > This was my opinion about dementors from post number 79422...
> > I got the impression that these souless people became dementors 
> > themselves. <snip> IMO, when the dementors first came into being, 
> > the "kiss" was an attempt to regain a soul. <snip> The 
description 
> > of the dementor's hand in PoA certainly reminded me of decaying 
> flesh.
> 
> Well, okay, but then Al said, in post #81323
> 
> Al:
> > I don't think soul-sucked people become Dementors, in any case.
> > There was an interview with Rowling (Canadian Press, October 25,
> > 2000) where she said Dementors don't breed but grow like fungi
> > wherever there's decay.
> 
> So I guess we're both wrong. JKR said so, sort of. Anyway, I 
*still* 
> want to know--what *happens* to a soul sucked by a dementor? Is it 
> <shudder> digested? Is there by-product? Or is it just *gone*?
> 
> Sandy, who thinks that "decay" comment supports Pip's new MD

Ah, but Sandy, isn't it true, that if something is not used, decay 
begins to set in?  And since these people are not using their bodies 
for anything, wouldn't decay begin there?  When Harry sees the 
dementor's hand in PoA, he pretty much says the flesh looked 
desicated and decayed.  That's why I think that dementors are soul-
sucked people.  I don't have the canon in front of me, but it is 
either Lupin or Sirius who says that the soul-sucked begin to become 
like dementors.

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