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What are they? Lupin said that "they infest the darkest, filthiest places..." Rowling said that they are "depression personified," are they the work of rotten sorcery or the inevitable accumulation ill feeling?

Do they have any connection with Lethifolds? We know that lethifolds are the only other things which must be repelled by the Patronus charm. Perhaps the Dementors are related to Lethifolds in some way?

i think they are a demented race of human that are corrupted

It is difficult to discern how long the Dementors have been around, since Rowling is deliberately ambiguous on that point hitherto.

The Dementors may well have been around since before Voldemort was prominent. James told Lily about them when they were still at school. The Ministry had "long" been allied to them when Voldemort fell.

i like the dementors, they're kinda like evil ringwraiths with out horses

Dementors are the worst form of creature i could think of (including the kind that could possess u)

nah, they're too much like ringwraiths to be hated by me

If you ask me what a Demetor is, I'd say they are the evolved form of Nazguls.


Oh, and Dracothedragon, those 2 Charmanders are really cute!

yes! they evolved from nazguls!!

I found Dementors to be disgusting, filthy, contaminating. The Nazgul are not, they are clean somehow. The Dementors are more like the dead marshes.

J. K. Rowling has the history of the Dementors mapped out, but did not reveal ANY of it in the first five books. I suppose all the more incentives to get hold of the sixth and seventh...

I think the dementors are followers of voldermort, that have sold or given up their soul somehow, and they linger around and torment harry.

im demented they pick on me at school

can i have a hug please?

*hugs real tight*

*joins in the hug*

*also joins in the hug*

dementors are a bunch of evil skeletons wearing black cloaks. You could also ask stuff like "what is magic" or "what is a Sauron" or "what is the Matrix" but you will never find out cuz the fact is, none of them really exist and maybe even their creators don't know.

i don't get what the first choice means/is, so i think the last two are reasonable. esp. with all those dark wizards.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/images/moresmilies/hug.gif

Rowling knows why the Dementors are around, but hasn't given any information yet. They have no hampering physical presence, though they can grab things, so they can only be combated on a spiritual level. A lethifold might well have a small physical presence, but they can only be combated on a spiritual level, because they have too little physical presence to be struck by stunners etc.

The Dementors seem to be indifferent to the wizarding wars, only wishing to leech off as much happiness as possible and kiss anyone when they think they can get away with it.

So they seem to be chaotic, neutral, rather than allied fully to either Voldemort or the Ministry.

yeh.

Sauron is an evil angel Darth Revan.

uhuh.

sauron was a lesser mai (sp.) gone evil as he was turned to that path by morgoth a valar and the root of all evil oin the world

and its not what is A sauron

it is what was sauron

or who is sauron

there is only one neamed sauron (meaning lord of abomination)

yeah

And you had better not put up any more ugly pictures Burlyman! I'm a synesthete! I need to be surrounded by beauty!

uhuh

monosyllabic

monosyllabic = having only one syllable.

synesthete = A person who experiences synesthesia, as by having a secondary sensation of sound as color or of color as sound

What the hell are you two talking about?! Or are u just using big words to make yourselves seem more intelligent? (bloom, i already know that u r intelligent)

Do you think JK will tell us more about the origins of the dementors in the next books or do you think she's done explaining them?

nah just wanted to provide a contrast to burly's answers as well as prove a point that he's monosyllabic
oooo she says she knows i'm intelligent!!woohoo!!

anyway.dementors.ugh.they're unclean like sum1 said....just...dirty*shiver*

you sons of bi*ches i'm a freakin guy.

OH NO!!ooops im soo sorry!!!!!!!
*cowers with embarassment*

no harm no foul. How can i hate you bloom u argue with everyone so elegantly.

now THAT'S a 1st

hopefully not the last

ive been given a compliment!!!
i hope

Probably not your first....
and i'm sure it's not your last

I still have a bone to pick with Burlyman if he ever comes back.

Rowling still has to tell us aboiut the Dementors' history, for she has not yet divulged ANY of it.

The Dementors destroyed the innocence of the Harry Potter world and made it warped and sordid. Their presence has to be wiped from the time line altogether. They are the REAL enemy. That was obvious from PoA chpt 12

*feels appreciated*

heres the story of how they came to be

one day sauron went to a jewelers and got a nice pretty ring, he decided to hold big party to show off ring, but men and elves got jealous and decided they wanted it, party got real ugly real fast, so sauron got his ring took from him, so then some time later about 2000 years, sauron heard his ring had been seen, so he sent out his nazguls, as they were searching for the ring they found gollum who told them the ring was in the shire (sauron originally thought this was a catalouge of some sort) so the nazgul set out again, and on the way they went to bree for a pint as beer is banned from mordor since it turned the party bad, they got very drunk and decided to have party on weathertop, and they were in luck for the hobbits happened to be there, so they tried to take the ring, but hairy human appeared and fought them off, they got separated and nazgul number 8 got extremely lonely, went to middle earth brothel where he found gollum, they had an *encounter* nine months later the first dementor was born