Draco's intent, Dementors and Boggarts

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No: HPFGUIDX 101397

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" <shrtbusryder2002 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Someone said that the kids dressed in robes would not have the same 
> effect as an actual Dementor because, well, it was fake. Im quite 
> possibly missing a key piece of that idea but, again, I can't find 
> it. Please respond again after I throw out my rebuttal.
> 
> Rebuttal: The Boggart Dementor was fake also yet it had the same 
> effects as a real one on Harry as he attempted to learn the Patronus 
> charm. So why would children dressed in robes effect the same way? 
> Providing Harry believed them to be dementors.
> 
> Again, I feel like im missing something that i'm trying to say but I 
> can't figure out what it is. :-\ 
> I guess my whole point is what is the difference between a boggart 
> dementor and a Draco dementor?
> 


The Boggart was an imitation of a Dementor; it took on all the 
attributes of a Dementor. Feeding on your fears it generates more fear.
That's what it does, that is it's nature. It is a fear amplifier and
broadcaster - directional, of course.

A couple of teenagers stumbling round dressed in a sheet generate
nothing except laughter. They do not have the ability to drain
happiness or cause the re-call of horrible memories. Nobody, not 
even themselves in their wildest dreams would expect that they could.
The very best they could do would be to *look* like a Dementor. Even
then it wouldn't be long before somebody noticed that this Dementor
walked instead of drifted.

If you like, it's the comparison between the Basilisk's shed skin and the
Basilisk itself. At first glance they may look the same but there's one
hell of a difference.

Kneasy