Over Kill with Dementors

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 98073

Siriusly Snapey Susan
> > Anyway, when you say the Dementors are tracking Sirius at the 
> end of  PoA, are you talking about the night all h*@# broke loose 
> in the  Shrieking Shack, when they would've kissed him if not for 
> Harry's  patronous?  <

Pippin:
> Yes. The sequence of events is as follows:
<snippity-snip snip>

> 15)Padfoot pursues Scabbers toward the lake
>  16) Harry and Hermione dash over to Ron
> 17) From beyond their vision, they hear the yelping of a dog in 
> pain
> 18) Harry runs flat out toward the sound
> 19) Harry senses the cold of a dementor's approach
> 20) He reaches the lake shore and sees that Sirius has turned 
> back into a man
> 21) Harry sees least a hundred dementors  gliding toward them 
> around the lake.
> 
> The Dementors' arrival serves Peter well--not only do they stop 
> Sirius, they also leave the entrances unguarded, allowing Peter 
> to complete his escape from the grounds. But what brings 
> them? Surely a dog chasing a rat wouldn't entice them from their 
> posts? Nor can it be Harry's heartfelt desire to help Sirius--the 
> Dementors are already approaching, causing Sirius to yelp in 
> pain, while Harry is still trying to  get his head straight.
> 
> The only way I can figure is that someone not only summoned 
> the Dementors from the entrances, but directed them until they'd 
> gotten close enough to Sirius to force him into human form. 
> 
> ... is it far fetched to suppose that a human could  serve as a 
> dementor's "eyes" ?


Siriusly Snapey Susan again:
Fascinating question--who *would* have sent or called the Dementors?  

I think you're right that they must have been sent or called because 
I now realize the problem w/ my original idea that the Dementors 
simply sensed a lot of "human action/emotion" because:  1) it 
wouldn't necessarily have been positive emotions they'd have been 
sensing at that moment, which is what they want; and 2) the school 
has been filled with students & staff all along and the Dementors 
haven't charged en masse like that.

So as I see it we're left with at least a couple of questions:
1) Can dementors force an animagi to transform himself back into a 
human?
2) Who WOULD have called or sent the Dementors AND have been in a 
position to have known to do so at that moment?
 **I THINK even ESE!Lupin fan Pippin would have to agree that Lupin 
couldn't have done it, since he'd transformed into a werewolf already.
 **Snape's unconscious, so he's out.
 **Puppetmaster!DD fans--is there any way/any reason DD would have 
done so? [I don't think so....]
 **Could Pettigrew have somehow done it before he transformed into 
Scabbers?
 **Could/Would Fudge have done so?  It's been recently suggested that 
Fudge set up Sirius' escape so that he could release the Dementors 
and set them onto Harry.  This might play nicely into that scenario?
 **Other candidates?

Siriusly Snapey Susan