Dementors

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91457

hrijnana wrote: 
Dementors aren't mentioned in FB by the name 'dementor', but the
description of the Lethifold sounds remarkably like them. 
 
"It resembles a black clock.... which glides along the ground" <snip> 
and . . . "the Patronus is the only spell known to repel the
lethifold". It also says that it suffocates the victims, then digests
them, leaving nothing behind. YUK! Maybe demontors are part
lethifold... but then who'd want to breed with them????

Carol:
Which reminds me: Wasn't Ron nearly strangled by a cloak when they
were cleaning up 12 Grimmauld Place in OoP? I think it was Mad Eye who
saved him, but I don't remember a specific spell being mentioned. I
certainly would have thought a Patronus was an odd form of rescue from
that particular situation. At any rate, your Lethifold description
certainly makes his danger sound a lot greater than it appeared when I
read the scene in OoP. In fact, it was passed over in a sentence or
two--just the sort of passing reference that we've grown to regard as
suspicious. While I'm at it, there was also a jar of something that
looked like blood. (Sirius's father was a vampire? Joking!) I'd like
to know more about the contents of that house and their connection
with Dark Magic. Maybe next year's DADA classes will focus on Dark
Artifacts instead of creatures like grindylows (third year) or spells
to watch out for (fourth year).

Carol, who wonders what Crouch!Moody taught after the lesson with the
spiders. Wouldn't anything else have been anticlimactic?

Carol, who doesn't want to think about Dementors breeding with
anything, even cloaks