[the_old_crowd] re: Dementor's Kiss / Molly's Age

[Monika Huebner]

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:

>IIRC Sirius's reminiscence of Azkaban was that most prisoners 'go mad'
>from depression and despair, waste away, and die. (I don't think he
>specified 'stop eating' as the reason for wasting away, but it fits.)

In fact, he does: "Most go mad in there, and plenty stop eating in the
end. They lose the will to live. [...]" (p. 459, Bloomsbury edition of
GoF)

>Maybe they didn't actually waste away because of going mad, maybe they
>wasted away because of having been Kissed but left in their cells with
>no feeding tube, etc.

Interesting idea, but I really don't think so. There must be a way to
control the Dementors and keep them from kissing the prisoners. Maybe
if there are enough of them to feed on, they don't feel the urge to
kiss. In the scene near the lake in PoA they were famished. How long
can a Dementor go without feeding? They had been stationed around the
school for almost a year or so.

Monika (just wondering)