Dementor's Nature (Re: Dementors and the MoM)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 124718


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
I can't imagine their future role, although it does seem at least
part of Voldemort's power is the fact he has no soul. As Lupin tells
Harry, in POA: "If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough
to reduce you to something like itself....soulless and evil." (US,
The Patronus chapter, p. 187).


Tonks here:

I think of the Dementor as a Demon Tormentor hence: Dementor

Now in magic a demon is something different than what it means in 
Christianity.  I think that it is more likely that JKR is using the 
term in the Christian sense rather than the magical sense. 

If LV is Tom Riddle's past, present, future, I would have to guess 
that LV is not human but an evil entity of some sort. This entity is 
something that has existed before the lifetime of Tom Riddle and 
continues on after Tom is gone. I think that perhaps LV is no longer 
Tom and what happened at GH was that Tom was destroyed but the 
essence of the evil that bonded with him did not.  Now LV can takes 
human form when invited into the body of the human host. Perhaps he 
can not take over someone that has not asked him to enter.  LV tried 
to possess Harry without permission and could not.  LV possessed Tom 
Riddle with permission. (This would be consistant with XC theology 
of possession.) 

The Dementors are the servants of this evil entity.  Just as the 
angels are the servants of God.  There is no mention of God in the 
series, but He is quietly there in the background.  The existence of 
God is evident in the fact that both Christmas and Easter are 
observed at Hogwarts. There is no mention of pagan holidays or even 
the holidays of other religions for that matter. Only Christian 
Holidays are observed. (Halloween is not entirely pagan- it ties 
into All Saints Day on Nov.1.)  No one really even thinks about it 
but the concept of a Christian God is just quietly, almost invisibly 
in the background of the story.  The closest thing we come to seeing 
God is in the person of DD.  DD knows about the ancient magic.  I 
think that within the ancient magic is where the XC God resides in 
this story.  LV knows about ancient magic too and he discounts an 
important part of it as DD tells us "to his determent".   

I am not sure of the role that the Dementors will take in the 
upcoming war.  Perhaps the war is the final war.  Armageddon.  I 
have often wondered about the books numbering 7.  Yes I know 7 years 
of school. But could they mean something else too?  In the book of 
Revelation the number 7 is repeated many times and when the seventh 
angel sounds the trumpet the 7th scroll is opened. And this is the 
beginning of the end.  In the war that follows there is an Eagle, a 
Serpent, a Lion, a Dragon and the Lamb of God.  (No mention of a 
Badger.)

Tonks_op