Dementor

Harry Potter POP! Movies Vinyl figure Dementor 9 cm

HARRY POTTER - POP N° 18 - Dementor

Dementors are considered to be among the most loathsome creatures in existence. JK Rowling said that the idea of ​​these creatures had come to her when she remembered a time in her life when she was unemployed and saw everything in darkness, almost sinking into depression. According to her, the Dementors are a metaphorical representation of the state she was in at the time.

The dementors are shrouded in large black robes that obscure them entirely except for their hands, which look like dead, moldy flesh. To move forward, the dementors slide along the ground. They are soulless, which is why they feed on the souls of their victims, their joys and happy memories, leaving only unhappy memories. They usually only attack criminals or if they have been ordered to, but Harry has such horrible memories that they attack him without hesitation and without authorization. We cannot destroy Dementors, but we can control their numbers if we eliminate the conditions that allow them to reproduce, namely despair and decay.

Only wizards can see them. Muggles can only feel the effects of their presence. It seems that squibs are also able to see them, although this point is not clarified.

Initially, the Ministry of Magic employs Dementors to guard Azkaban, the wizarding prison. Indeed, these creatures are capable of making us forget all feelings of joy; the beings who experience their presence only keep in mind their most terrible memories and can go crazy. Their proximity therefore constitutes both a punishment and a means of preventing escapes. We also learn that Sirius Black managed to escape from Azkaban by transforming into a dog to slip between the bars of his prison (in fact, Sirius Black is an animagus), because knowing he is innocent, without being an happy feeling, allowed him to reduce the impact of the Dementors on him. He was therefore able to slip unsuspectingly out of the penitentiary and reach the mainland.

The only way to neutralize a Dementor is to create a patronus, a particularly difficult protective spell that concentrates positive emotions in the form of an ethereal animal.