Over Kill with Dementors

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98029

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> > Heather says:
> > One thing that I noticed is that Harry sees 'the Grim" (aka 
Sirius  as the dog)in the stands just seconds before the 
Dementors on the  pitch begin to affect him.  I think most people 
read this as being  a red herring explanation to Harry's nearly 
fatal fall from his  broom.  But later Sirius admits to Harry that he 
was indeed in the  stands that day and watched Harry fly.  I 
deduced that the Dementors actually came onto the pitch that 
afternoon because they  had tracked Sirius there....<<
> 
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> Except that I don't think the Dementors *could* track him there 
if  he was in animagus form.  That's the reason he was able to 
escape  from Azkaban in the first place--he said the Dementors 
are much less  sensitive to the emotions of animals, and so 
when he slipped by,  they were just confused.  I assume Sirius 
has been hanging around  Hogwarts *only* in his animagus 
form, so I don't think the Dementors  could have tracked him to 
the stadium any more than they tracked him  into the Forbidden 
Forest, where he'd been hiding.  The given  explanation--that they 
were so "hungry" they couldn't resist the big  crowd--makes 
sense to me.<


Pippin:
But they track Sirius again at the end of PoA, when he's all by 
himself.  I'm afraid this is all ESE!Lupin's work. I was thrilled to 
discover, in OOP, that one can see the Quidditch pitch from the 
DADA office. 

speculating:
Transformed but with a human mind, ESE!Lupin spotted Sirius 
at the match and summoned the Dementors. Since they were 
concentrating their powers on Sirius, the other students weren't 
much affected, except for Harry who is more than usually 
sensitive.  We have canon that Dementors can concentrate their 
powers more on one person than another: Fudge for example, 
can bring one into the castle to deal with Crouch without being 
overcome.

Pippin