What happens to victim's body after the Dementor's kiss?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94134

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <ruminalus_ficus at y...>
wrote:
> happybean98 wrote:
> > This may seem like a trivial question, but I feel it may have some 
> > future significance. What exactly happens to the body of someone 
> > once they have been kissed by a Dementor?
> <snip>
> > Kathleen
> 
> The way I've always understood it is that their body continues to 
> live, but the person himself is gone.  So the body of Barty Crouch 
> is probably at St. Mungos or some other facility, where it is taken 
> care of as an animal would be.  The person, Barty Crouch (or 
> whomever it may be), no longer exists.  The consciousness of the 
> person is destroyed.
> 
> -RF

Carol:
Worse than consciousness. The *soul* of the person is destroyed. It's
clear from the existence of ghosts, from the Veil in the DoM, and from
the fact that JKR herself is a Christian that there's some sort of
afterlife for witches and wizards that may be different in some ways
from that of Muggles. At any rate, dead witches and wizards can
choose, as Nearly Headless Nick and Myrtle and the other ghosts have
done, not to pass into whatever lies beyond this earthly existence, or
they can enter what DD (I forget where) calls "the last great
adventure." So to lose your soul is worse than death because you can
never enter that other realm, never see your loved ones again.

Until the body of a soul-sucked person dies, he or she is apparently
something like a zombie--breathing, walking, perhaps eating and
drinking or even talking, but not living because they don't know who
or what they are. Possibly they're placed in a special ward in St.
Mungos's for the incurably mentally ill. Maybe they stop eating and
just die on their own. I don't know. But when their body dies, it's
not a passage into another world. It's the end of everything. There's
no afterlife to go to. Just--nothing.

Carol