[HPforGrownups] How about... this ending? Dementor question...

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 95292

Vmonte:
> Are Dementors actual living creatures? How are they created? (I'm
> guessing that they don't procreate like regular living creatures.)
> Are they more like ghosts? Can a person become a Dementor?

Interestingly enough, I was recently asked these same questions by a 
friend (who likes Harry, but is primarily part of the Buffy fandom).

Of course, it's all just speculation, because JKR hasn't given us 
anything definite, but I liked the idea another listie mentioned a few 
days (weeks??) ago -- simply put, people who are given the Dementor's 
Kiss eventually degenerate into Dementors themselves.

I like this theory a lot, as it explains *why* Dementors want to go 
about sucking up souls -- they were deprived of their own, thus they 
are "soul-hungry".

So, where did the first Dementor come from?  I thought maybe it was a 
spell gone awry (perhaps the same immortality spells Tom used that so 
disfigured his physical form, only gone *more* wrong).  So some wizard, 
questing for immortality, accidentally ousts his own soul, thereby 
turning himself into a monster.  This monster naturally feels the want 
of a soul and the emotions that go along with having a soul.  
Therefore, it "eats" souls when it can and survives by feeding on 
emotions in the meantime.

What do you all think?

Laura (who knows that these ideas have probably been thought of before, 
but who *did* come up the theory of the first Dementor independently.)