Dementors and souls

[Joe]

No: HPFGUIDX 156127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hendlei" <ikhendley at ...> wrote:
>
> Also, could Harry, in his quest to destroy the remaining HCXs trick
> the Dementors into helping him by throwing one or more HCX in their
> path? If they can't see, but do sense souls, can they destroy the 
bit
> of soul in an HCX by "sucking it out"?
> 
> The basic question that occurred to me while reading PoA was: Can 
the
> Dementors actually help stop LV while he believes they are his
> allies? DD believes that LV doesn't know when or if an HCX has been
> destroyed and, if that is true, it is possible to destroy several
> before he realizes it.
> 

Joe: 

After reading PoA years ago about how dementors suck the soul out of 
a person I wondered if Harry would trick LV into getting too close to 
one and getting kissed in the seventh book. When I read HBP about how 
Voldy's soul is in bits and pieces I put that thought aside. I hadn't 
thought of the dementors sucking the succulent soul marrow out of a 
horcrux bone, but it's worth considering. Even if HP does manage to 
destroy all of the horcruxes the dementors still could smooch the 
last soul segment out of LV's new body in the climax.