Another Flint? (Was: When?)

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 118736


Carol:  
> Speaking of Flints, has anyone wondered how the Dementors could 
bury
> the polyjuiced Mrs. Crouch if they're blind? And I half-recall a
> passage in GoF in which Hermione, who is usually right about such
> things, refers to them as if they're able to see through an
> invisibility cloak. (Can anyone find and quote that passage?) 

Meri now: Can't quote the passage because I haven't got my books on 
hand, but I believe what you're refering to is actually Professor 
Dumbledore's speech at the beginning of PoA. During the welcome 
feast he reminds the students (namely Harry) that dementors will be 
guarding the entrance ways to the grounds and that Invisibility 
Cloaks won't protect a person from them. I do in fact think that 
they are blind, but I also assume that they have other senses or 
abilities that make up for the lack of sight. After all, blind 
people in the real world generally have exceptional hearing or 
senses of smell and function reasonably normally, so the dementors 
could also function without sight but with the aid of some other 
sense that helps them locate people/objects. 
Meri - giving anything to know what the heck made the dementors...