Umbridge

[festuco]

No: HPFGUIDX 147959

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:

> Carol responds:
> Interesting idea, but a Dementor sucking your soul doesn't kill you.

Gerry

You are absolutely right, but it does take you out of the picture.

 So there would be no
> way to disguise a soul-sucking as a death. The victim's heart would
> still be beating and he would still be breathing.

Gerry

Stroke, coma. Just make sure he goes into a Muggle hospital and let no
healer near him. She is in a position to manage that. Or bribe someone
to declare it the after effect of the failed AK. And are we sure a
healer would diagnose soul lossfrom a dementor attack? What happened
to Harry was unique. So could the strange coma be. Only seen in
victims of a dementor attack, but we know that cannot have happened.
Poor boy, but he was acting strangely all the year...
> 
> Apparently Umbridge knew from someone (Fudge?) that Harry could
> produce a Patronus and sent a Dementor after him to make him cast the
> spell (in a Muggle neighborhood). I'm pretty sure that she wanted him
> discredited, not dead (or rather, soul-sucked). 

How would she have known the could produce a Patronus? She would
certainly have heard from Fudge what happened at the lakeside and that
was that Harry almost got Kissed because the Dementors went for him
and he was only saved in the nick of time. Fudge certainly did not
know that it was Harry himself that cast the mysterious Patronus that
saved his life, for obvious reasons. Now there is a remote chance she
might have heard what happened at the Quidditch match, but then she
only knows that though he might have produced a Patronus without
Dementors, when the real things showed he was helpless. But I still
think she does not know about that, she only knows what Fudge told her
and she thought that being Kissed is the best way to deal with that
nasty boy. 

Gerry