Oh yeah, its the Dementor-Veiled-Gateway-Connection-Theory

[Someone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128442

[This post originally found its way (somehow?) onto the OT chat-list-
thing. So, for the happy few of us who haven't read it yet, here it is 
again, where it originally was intended to be]

Has anyone considered whether the origin of the dementors might not be 
found in the workings of the ancient, veiled gateway? It seems to me 
that the gateway separates the soul from the body of the subject, the 
soul passing on to wherever it is souls go to once a person dies(or, 
alternatively, becoming ensnared "within" the gateway?). The body, 
however, separated from its soul, continues to "live on" as the 
undead. Very similar, it can be seen, to the concept of the dementors. 
The gateway was described as very old; perhaps this *is* how the very 
first dementors came to inhabit the earth? 
 
 
The question is, who created the archway, and was this its original, 
fiendish, intention? If so, how would this benefit the architect? 
Indeed, having accepted this connection, what other implications can 
we draw from it, relevant to the plot of HP?

John.