[HPforGrownups] what exactly ARE dementors??

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 136042

Samantha <samwisep at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Potterphiles!
There are many, many descriptions of how dementors make you feel
(ie:cold, like you will never be happy again) and what they do(give 
you the "kiss", suck out your soul. BUT, what ARE dementors? Are they 
wizard made?(to guard Azkaban) or are they like hags, trolls and 
goblins? Seperate creatures unto themselves? I have read each book 
except the last one four or five times, and I don't remember them ever 
saying how dementors came about.

If you wish to get at it, the same problem exists for most of the other magical races: there is no indication of how Peeves came about (except that he never lived), or how the house elves, the centaurs, the goblins or whatever came about. 

In a few cases, such as e.g. the basilisk, we get information about the creation process, but in most cases these creatures merely inhabit this world: they are ancienct and 'came about' in the same way as the humans that inhabit it: through the imagination of the author. 

I think we need to realise that however much we might wish it were different, there are a lot of things in Potterverse that just are. They are because Rowling has imagined them to be part of this world, but within the story there is no explanation of how they come to be. 

Regards,

Troels Forchhammer


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