Snape's Dementor Essay

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No: HPFGUIDX 145865

potioncat wrote:
> In the beginning of HBP chapter 21 Ron, and several other 6th years 
> are working on "a viciously difficult essay for Snape." Harry and 
> Hermione have already finished it. Harry expects to get low marks 
> because he disagreed with Snape over the "best way to tackle 
> dementors." 
<snip>
> So, why do you think the essay is so hard? 
<snip>
> I know we discussed once before whether Snape had a different way 
> of fighting Dementors than Lupin did, or if he had a different way 
> of conjuring a Patronus. And of course, we won't discover whether 
> Harry was right about the marks.

Scam :

Yes, it did strike me in my first reading itself that Snape knew of 
other methods to tackle dementors .... what could it be? 

On the same note --- doesn't the Peruvian Darkness powder bring about 
the same kind of darkness (sans the cold and misery) as the 
dementors? The dementors' presence first brings about darkness, no? 
Why do I have a terrible feeling that it is somehow connected to the 
dementors' breeding ..... 

Also, how DO those terrible things breed? Does it mean that there are 
male and female dementors? and their offsprings are also dead and 
rotting????? Yuck ..... the very thought gives me goosebumps .... 

Scam (vigourously shaking her head in a failing effort to throw out 
these sick thoughts from her mind)