Over Kill with Dementors

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98057

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, BrwNeil at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/11/2004 3:06:33 AM Eastern Daylight 
Time, 
> theanimallover_11 at y... writes:

> It seems everyone has missed the point of my original post.  
My question was  why over 100 dementors were at Hogwarts to 
begin with if their only job was to  guard the gate.  Also if drawn
to 
the Quidditch field because of the large crowd, why do they seem 
to be paying attention only to Harry.
> 

As Snape says, "by the time I had come 'round they were 
heading back to their postions at the entrances...." Note the 
plural. The gates are also not the only way onto the grounds. 
One may also reach Hogwarts by crossing the lake, as the First 
Years do every year, and as the Dementors themselves do when 
they attack Harry and Sirius at the end of PoA. There have to be 
enough Dementors to guard all the entrances, the perimeter of 
the lake, and  to deal with a powerful Dark Wizard if they ever 
catch him.

As for why Dementors are drawn to Harry, that's easy.  Harry has 
in great abundance the good feeling that they feed upon. Thanks 
to his mother's sacrifice he is a repository of the power which 
Dumbledore does not name (and isn't *that* interesting...is he 
afraid of it?) but which, IMO,  can only be pure love.

Pippin