Dementors

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91343

John wrote:
Why are Dementors not even mentioned by Newt Scamander 
in "Fanstastic Beasts and where to find them"? Does that strike 
anyone else as odd? They are not even mentioned in the beginning of 
the book when he classifies the terms beings and beasts. What's up 
with that?
<snip>

Jo wrote: 
Perhaps because they are not beasts but people, or more strictly
speaking, the undead, bodies separated from souls. OK this is just a
theory and not backed by very much except they are humanoid in shape
and feed off human emotions. <snip>

Carol:
I agree that they're beings, not beast, which is why they're not in
FB, but I don't think they're undead people. JKR has said that they're
personifications of depression, so I would classify them, for lack of
a better term, as evil spirits rather than "undead bodies separated
from souls,' which sounds more like zombies. (Note that zombies
apparently do exist in the WW as a distinct entity, as they appear as
someone's boggart in PoA). Also, they are taller than people and have
no eyes and only a hole for a mouth. I don't think they were ever
people, but I have no idea how such a monstrous entity would be
created or born.

It's possible that a Dementor's victim turns into a Dementor, but
wouldn't we know if that had happened to Bary, Jr.? I think he's just
a living body with no memories or emotions, somehow permanently
soulless. His body will die but his soul will go nowhere, having been
absorbed into the evil essence of the Dementor.

Anyone have any idea what happened to the soul-sucked victims of the
Dementors? Would the Azkaban guards have left them to die? (Maybe
that's what happened to some of our missing DEs from VW1?) And where
is what remains of Barty, Jr., now? In a St. Mungo's ward for the
incurably and criminally insane? Ideas, anyone?

Carol, who wonders why Yahoo is so interminably slow today