Dudley Demented (???)

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 106968

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mrslestrange" 
<elizabethleclerc at h...> wrote:

> And why do they [the dementors] go after him [Dudley], anyway? I 
thought they were supposed to 
> be precision instruments, unless you were trying to block them from 
> who they were after. I'm getting this from the PoA movie, however, 
so 
> it's possibly not canon. Why would Umbridge sic them on Dudders?

Meri now: Don't forget that Dementors are living (sort of) beings 
that have minds of their own. They feed on human emotion to survive. 
IMHO Harry was the only one DU told the dementors to attack, Dudley 
was just an extra. I think that one of the reasons that Harry was 
targeted by the dementors, even as early as PoA, is because he's got, 
as Lupin tells him, such emotional stuff in his life that he's 
probably a magnet for them. And Dudley was terribly effected by the 
dementors, as well, so maybe he's an emotional magnet, too. Just two 
knuts. 
Meri