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

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128445

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Someone" 
<someoneofsomeplace at y...> wrote:
> 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? 

GEO: I do recall that she stated that they were beings that grew 
from decay like fungus so I for one hardly think the gateway which 
seems to be a path to the afterlife has anything to do with their 
creation. 
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/1000-
canadianpress-moore.htm