Umbridge

[lagattalucianese]

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> 
> Carol responds:
> Interesting idea, but a Dementor sucking your soul doesn't kill you.
> As Lupin explains in PoA, your brain and other organs continue to 
work
> and your body remains alive. It's just your soul that's irretrievably
> lost, which is why Lupin tells Harry that having your soul sucked out
> is *worse* than death. 
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

This is why I think Voldemort is going to be dealt with by that "snack-
happy" dementor. He will be left alive (and conscious, if the brain 
continues to function) in his monstrously deformed shell of a body 
until he dies of old age. Or more karmic yet, Harry, instead of 
destroying the last Horcrux, will be forced to leave it in some place 
no one, including Voldemort, can get to it. So his soulless body will 
continue to live forever, or as long as the Horcrux-soulbit survives, 
rather like Gollum, whom, coincidentally, the movies show him to 
resemble. I think this is what Dumbledore means by "there are things 
much worse than death" (OotP.36).

I interpret the aftermath of a Dementor's Kiss to be a form of extreme 
depression that leaves the victim without happiness, hope, purpose, or 
will. As Lupin tells Harry (PoA.10), "Get too near a dementor and 
every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of 
you....You'll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your 
life." The Kiss itself leaves the victim with "...no sense of self, no 
memory, no...anything....You'll just--exist. As an empty shell..." 
(PoA.12).