Evil Hermione, and Traitor Marietta

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154995

Pippin wrote:
> > <snip> Learning to fight dementors is not part of the OWL exam by
any stretch of the imagination. Nor, from Marietta's point of view,
can it be part of an anti-Voldemort effort, since the dementors are
supposed to be anti-Voldemort themselves.
 
Lanval responded:
> 
> Not part of the OWL exam? Only because it's too advanced. Professor 
> Tofty has no problem asking Harry to produce a Patronus for extra 
> points. Meaning it's part of DADA.
> 
> The HP lexicon qualifies Dementors as Dark Creatures, along with 
> Banshees, Boggarts, Grindylows, Kappas, Werewolves and Vampires. 
> Please show me canon proof that dementors, and protection against 
> them, has never been part of the study schedule. <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm not Pippin and I really want to get untangled from this thread,
but even if learning to cast a Patronus is part of NEWT DADA, the
students would not learn how to cast one against a real Dementor.
Dumbledore is adamantly opposed to bringing Dementors into the school
(see PoA) even when they're ostensibly on the Ministry's side. It's
just too dangerous. And knowing how to cast a Patronus against a
classmate is not at all the same as casting one against a Dementor,
who's trying to suck out the very happiness required to cast a
Patronus in the first place.

Snape tells *his* NEWT DADA class about an alternative method of
fighting Dementors that could very well work for anyone who isn't
Harry. Too bad we're not told what it is.

Carol, agreeing with Pippin on this one