Patronus

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190477

> June:
> I think that the Dementors have the same effect on everyone good
> or bad and that is why Umbridge needed the patronus.

> Joey:
> Well, I think so too. Yet Steve's explanation as to how the
> effect can vary *for the victim* based on the victim's
> personailty, mindset does make sense to me.
>
> I suppose it's like no two individuals suffering from the same
> disease can have *exactly the same* experience even though the
> disease, its intensity & symptoms could be just the same.


June:
That is exactly the way I see it. It makes sense that no two people
will react the same way. True, everyone fears the Dementors but
look at what happened on the train in POA, Harry was the only one
who passed out and the others stated that they felt cold and like
all happiness had been removed from the world, while meantime
Draco was trying to hide in the Weasley twins` compartment and
Lupin later said that they affected Harry worse than everyone else
because he had true horrors in his past (I am actually reading it
right now and on that chapter). So the Dementors do affect people
differently and the death eaters, although they too must have bad
things in their past, are probably not affected by them because they
are the ones doing the bad things to everyone else. I actually got
a kick out of the idea of the Dementors when I first read the book.
I tell people now if they say they are feeling down that there must
be a dementor around, lol.