Over Kill with Dementors - Sirius's Reaction

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No: HPFGUIDX 98292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...>
> > Marianne:
> > As to an earlier question about why the Dementors at Hogwarts seemed
> > to affect Sirius more than when he was in prison, I suspect that he
> > didn't have a mob of them clustered around his cell, whereas he was
> > smack in the midst of one at the edge of the lake.

> bboy_mn:
> Or perhaps, it was because Sirius didn't have a Godson who loved him
> and forgave him when he was in prison. Perhaps, he didn't have the
> hope and joy of, for a few brief minutes, knowing he was going to be
> free and clear, and able to live a normal life again.
> 
> Perhaps, when that joy, love, forgiveness, and hope were ripped from
> him, and he was left with nothing but the hell and horror of Azkaban,
> it left him feeling a little under the weather (slighly sarcastic).

You're being entirely too reasonable. Most distressing.
And anyway when Sirius (supposedly) escaped he must have passed
within inches of the Dementors (he does say "they" plural) when he
slipped between the bars(?) when they opened the door(?) to give
him his meal. Certainly they were much, much closer than the
Dementors at the lake - and if the effect produced by a Dementor
obeys the Inverse Square Law.....

Why would he have to slip between bars if  the door was open?
Couldn't  he do that when they weren't around? Seems a bit odd-
like much of his story.

Kneasy