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| | Term 5: March - May 2004 Term Five: The Beauxbatons Visitors (Sept. 2051 - June 2052) | |
03-26-2004, 02:41 AM
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Professor Rae unlocks the door to her classroom and slips quietly inside. She admires the straight lines of the desks, the clean blackboard, and the general orderliness of the classroom, knowing that it will soon be filled with curious, fidgety students. Both ways are pleasent enough.
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03-26-2004, 03:50 AM
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"As I said before, I dont think dementors have souls themselves, therefore nor do they have feelings....so the ministry probablly employs them because dementors wouldnt discriminate or show pity in any way toward the prisoners."
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03-26-2004, 03:53 AM
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"That's right, Riley," Professor Rae responded quickly before the class got off track again. "Five points to Slytherin. They are cheap labor, and they aren't swayed by human emotion. In addition, and you may want to be writing all this down, class... in addition, they make the bars and miles of water completely unnecessary. The reason ALMOST nobody has escaped from Azkaban is that the dementors trap them within their own misery. Can you tell me what they do? What effect does the dementor have on the average person?"
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03-26-2004, 03:54 AM
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"They cause them to go insane, tormented constantly by the worst experiences in their life. If a person is fed off of by a dementor for too long, they will be reduced to something like a dementor themselves." | |
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03-26-2004, 03:54 AM
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| | Hungarian Horntail
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"They take away the humans happiness, feeding off it, making htem feel miserable. IT makes them remember their worst memeories. It drives them crazy, haunting them. They belive that everything is worthless and not woth living for." | |
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03-26-2004, 03:55 AM
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| | Gnome
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The average person feels depressed...I believe that that was a definition I read somewhere. People (Muggles) who suffer depression are often being influenced by dementors. | |
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03-26-2004, 03:56 AM
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the average person feels like all the happiness is sucked out of them and they are forced to relive their worse memories...unless they can somehow tune the dementors out, like Sirius
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03-26-2004, 04:05 AM
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"A dementor's effects are described as "a cold, miserable feeling." The person's worst experience will be replayed to it's fullest haunting amount. They will not be able to block this memory out (unless trianed otherwise) and they will be in fear."
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03-26-2004, 04:06 AM
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"Five more points each to Slytherin and Ravenclaw for Riley and Ashlie's answers. Riley gave you a great definition of what the effect of the dementor is, while Ashlie supplied the cause. The dementor feeds off positive emotion. In time, people are completely drained of positive emotions, and are left only with the worst experiences of their lives. As I'm sure you can imagine..." the professor shivered, "this would be enough to drive anyone mad. Imagine your worst memory... scariest or lonliest or... something that makes you feel low. Imagine that is ALL you can think of, all day, every day."
"I also want to give 5 points to Hufflepuff for VirginiaP's answer. You are correct... even Muggles feel the effects of dementors. Muggle doctors call it depression."
"As for the retained sanity and escape of Sirius Black, I hope you realize that he didn't simply 'tune out' the dementors. He had two very important things on his side. One, he could reside in Animagus state. With the simplified animal mind, he was mostly unaffected by the dementors. Two, he had something to cling to that wasn't a positive or negative emotion. His innocence. If I try to cling to, say... the memory of my wedding or my best friend at Hogwarts, these are positive emotions, and they will be stripped from me."
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03-26-2004, 04:08 AM
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Ashlie nodded. "Isn't it true that animals are not effected, while Dementors can not sense them?" | |
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03-26-2004, 04:10 AM
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::Riley shudders inwardly at the thought of her worst memory.::
"Professor, are people with worse experiences in their lives more likely to be targeted by a feeding dementor? I know that that they are effected worse by one, but do dementors actively seek people with worse expreiences out?" | |
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03-26-2004, 04:10 AM
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"Yes, I know that Professor...I wasn't sure if I should go into detail at the time as that was not what your question had asked for." | |
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03-26-2004, 04:12 AM
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Ashlie shuddered at the thought. All her memories, gone. Only to be left witht he horrible ones. It was terrible, she felt herself shiver. She knew exactly what memories would be left. "So then, Muggles that are in a depression are caused by Dementors? Is there a particular reason the dementor effects that particular person? They say Depression is caused by tradgedy. But, wouldn't a Dementor go after a very happy person?" | |
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03-26-2004, 04:16 AM
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"I'm just clarifying," Professor Rae smiled. "As for your question, Riley, I would say that logically, a dementor would actually target someone with more negative memories LESS. Afterall, that person probably has less positive emotional energy to feed off of. However, I think we must also consider the magical energy of a person. Dementors prefer to target wizards, as opposed to Muggles, because the strength of magical energy is tied into the strength of emotional energy given off. Many Ministry specialists have studied this, but we still aren't sure why. However, that means that a wizard of great power, even if full of many negative experiences, would still be more appetizing than a Muggle or less-powerful wizard with a full, happy life. Does that make sense?"
"And, Ashlie? That is true. Animals have simpler emotions and do not give off any emotional energy. They do show up on the dementor's 'radar' but their energy isn't very strong."
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03-26-2004, 04:18 AM
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Ashlie nodded. "So, it'd help for a person who is to be targeted by a dementor to be an Animagi. Or, to be good at the partonus spell." | |
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03-26-2004, 04:19 AM
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"So a wizard with good experiences is more likely to be targeted than a wizard with bad experiences, and both are more likely to be targeted than a muggle with either? Or do I have that mixed up?" Riley asks with a confused expression on her face. | |
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03-26-2004, 04:21 AM
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"You're correct, Riley," Ashlie said. | |
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03-26-2004, 04:27 AM
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"Yes, Riley, you're right. I'm sorry if I confused you."
"Can anyone tell me what the dementor looks like?"
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03-26-2004, 04:29 AM
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"It is under a hood, and no one but its victims actually know what it looks like. However since its hands are rotted, its face, if it has one, must be as well." | |
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03-26-2004, 04:29 AM
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"Their usually very tall, and always seem dark, because they cause the lights to go out when they enter a room. They have grey-ish skin and no eye-balls. And their mouths are just these gaping holes. They're usually described as being rotted, which kind of gets me in the mind of thinking that they look like corpses, but I'm not sure if that's right. They just sound as though they're festering." | |
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03-26-2004, 04:30 AM
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"No one really knows," Ashlie said. "They're hooded and their face is visiable only before they perform their Kiss. We do know that they're graying and scaly." | |
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03-26-2004, 04:32 AM
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"They sort of float/glide above the ground," Chelsea suggested. | |
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03-26-2004, 04:32 AM
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Not under the cloak, no, but outside they are like dark hooded figures with creepy hands that you sometimes can see under their sleeves. They hover, slide above the floor, they do not walk or run.
I know you said you didn't want the answer given ten times but I just fihured no one was giving the superficial description of a dementor, which I'm trying to provide. Hope you don't mind :flowersmile:
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03-26-2004, 04:33 AM
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What are they, exactly, Professor? Maybe a better question is, what were they? Were they always in this form...or were they once something...happier?
Another question...what happens to a soul once it is sucked out by a dementor? Is it consumed, the way happy memories and thoughts are? | |
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03-26-2004, 04:36 AM
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"I belive the souls are consumed," Ashlie said thoughtuflly. | |
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03-26-2004, 04:37 AM
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*raise hand* Following Virginap's idea, I wanted to ask if a dementor is an expectration, a spirits, to be classified as *Apparition*, or if it's considered a *Being*; either way it cannot be a magical beast I would say for it does not figure as one in Newts Scamander's Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them book.
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