The Nature of a Dementor

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 128410

I have some difficulty believing your "Dementor as a Spiritual 
being" statement. If they are spiritual beings why do they look (and 
smell) like decayed corpses? And what do you mean by "It is 
especially tuned into Human Beings"? Whatever they are they are 
certainly not HUMAN beings – that much we can be sure of. Besides, 
they can't be both human and spiritual. 

Given their slightly Freddy Krugerish appearance I'd say that it's 
more likely that they are a by-product of some of the "Darker" 
wizards dabbling in necromancy. That's why DD called them 
LV's "natural allies". Voldemort is his very own Frankenstein and 
the Monster in one and he owes his present state to some ghastly 
Dark Arts experiments with necromantic overtones – all this "bones 
of the father, flesh of the servant" stuff etc. Moreover, their 
ultimate weapon – the Kiss – reduces their victims to the state of 
soulless bodies – also kind of necromancy in reverse. 

Another thing: the idea of sucking one's soul with a kiss has a 
definite literary source, I mean Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", of course. 
Naturally, in the HP books we deal with a deliberate travesty of the 
initial courtoise metaphor, yet here we have this necromancy theme 
again, by association with Faustus. 

a_svirn