Can dementors actually be killed?

[bdclark0423]

No: HPFGUIDX 182417



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, dragonkeeper
<dragonkeeper012003 at ...> wrote:
>
> Someone in the past must have found a way to control the Dementors
> with a charm or spell at one time and then figured a way to use
> them for the benefit of the witch world and if they figured a way
> to control them then they must have found a way to kill them.
>
> My question involves how the ministry can control the Dementors?
> What do they use to control the Dementors and if they know how
> to control the Dementors then they must also know a way to kill
> the Dementors should things go awry.
>
> dragonkeeper
>


bdclark0423:

In this interview, JKR states dementors cannot be destroyed:

http://the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript
<http://the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript\
>

Cornersoul: So what happens to all the dementors where will they go will
they be destroyed if so, how
J.K. Rowling: You cannot destroy Dementors, though you can limit their
numbers if you eradicate the conditions in which they multiply, ie,
despair and degradation. As I've already said, though,
J.K. Rowling: the Ministry no longer used them to torment its opponents.

I would only assume that since dementors `feed' off of
depression and the negative/sad emotions of humans and tend to elicit
that state amongst humans, that it would only be beneficial that the
agreed domain of dementors would be places such as Azkaban.  It also
makes sense, that a patronus, which is essentially the positive force
(happy memories needed to conjure) would be what is used as a way to
stave off or control them.

Other examples I can think of in regards to creatures such as dementors
is the Star Trek TNG episode Time's Arrow.  They discover a race
that actually exists in a dimension that is just a little out of phase
of human's physical world, yet they prey on humans' soul or
essence by consuming all this through a hole in the head that could be
considered a mouth, plus these aliens don't have any other facial
features except when they take on the human disguise.  Now, of course,
these aliens are destroyed in the end
..

The other creature I consider them to be like would be the ring wraiths
in Lord of the Rings, they exist in the realm between life and death,
they wear robbing, you can see bones but no other noticeable human
characteristics, amd the hero of the story always becomes a main target,
as well as, immediately succumbs to their ominous prescense. That's
about as far as the similarities go, since we know the wraiths were once
men, and they're under the power of Sauron, and do his bidding (due to
the nine rings they accepted from him).


bdclark0423



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