Who are the Dementors in the world of Harry Potter?

Englishwoman Joan Rowling envied even the most successful and popular with readers of "feathers workers." Diligence and self-confidence allowed this undoubtedly talented writer to ascend to Olympus success and popularity, thanks to a series of works about Harry Potter and his faithful friends - young wizards, designed to save the world from absolute evil in the face of Woland de Mort and the minions.

Rowling: the winner of their own dementors

However, one does not need to think that Joan has always "headed the right path" to realize her dream. There were days, months and years, when she was tormented by constant doubts and thoughts about her uselessness and weakness, her own lack of talent. Being in a depressed state of mind, Rowling often thought about committing an irreparable evil to herself, the desire to leave this imperfect world intensified during the divorce from her husband. It was then, according to the writer herself, that new heroes appeared in her books - nasty dementors, monstrous creatures, evil prison guards, fierce haters of Harry Potter, whom the brave young wizard feared like no other.

These creatures are the very embodiment of hatred, which can only be counteracted by the most daring, overcome weakness and doubt. But even the best of the best do not always come out victorious in the deadly battle with the Dementors - the flying absorbers of the souls of wizards and people ("Muggles" - as the heroes of Joan Rowling, who possess magical knowledge and abilities, call us).

Evil Guardians

This article deals with the Dementors: how they look, what they fear, on whom they look like, and how they can be dealt with using will power, imagination and spell. There will be an explanation of the terrible weapons of these creatures, which are called wizards "the Dementor's kiss." Perhaps none of them would like to experience the power of this kiss.

So, who are these creatures and what do the Dementors eat? These are creatures living in the worlds of Harry Potter. They do not have eyes, they do not eat the usual food for people, but consume memories - only positive, good, good, the bad ones are left to the victim, later bringing unbearable torments to her. They prefer to cover their faces with hoods, few people have seen what lies beneath them, except that Harry Potter can tell about it. Dementors were his adversaries and often approached him very close, pursued sometimes and sometimes achieved his goal. But as the experts of magic creatures say, there are no faces in the usual sense of this word among the Dementors.

There is a mouth, but no face

To understand that this Dementor's face, and not something unimaginable, can only be by the presence of the mouth, which the Dementor uses very skillfully and effectively, using his favorite torture. It is called the "Dementor's Kiss", which is not sweet and pleasant to the person to whom it is intended. After the Dementor has committed violence, the person who has been kissed falls into a state of numbness. There is unverified information that death is much preferable than innocent in appearance, but such a terrible, in fact, this "kiss."

It is approaching

A clear sign of the Dementor's approach is the appearance of ice. Fear begins to overwhelm a person, anguish consumes him, gnaws of doubt. This state means only one thing - a hungry and very evil "Dementor" next to each other, which means it's time to prepare for the worst, and believe me, in this case the saying "it happened worse" does not work absolutely.

The victim of the Dementors almost became a very fat and very evil brother Harry named Dudley Dursley. The monsters had already set to dinner, but for some reason, Harry decided to save his ardently unloved relative and drove them away, using magic.

Treatment for the Dementor's Kiss

Familiar magician Remus Lupine always said that getting acquainted with Dementors, not even close, requires huge forces, and in order to restore them, it is necessary to eat chocolate urgently. The writer explains this by the similarity of depression and the pernicious influence of the dementors, which means that both treatments use the same one in practice.

Harry Potter did not see the Dementor's face for one reason only, that he was not there, but he still felt the kiss on himself. He remained healthy only because the Dementor, who, perhaps, was young and not experienced, did not finish his dark business. Although this was hindered by Harry himself, who, using Hermione Granger, took advantage of the "temporary flywheel", approached the flying soul eater and his victims and frightened off this monster, using a spell from the Dementors.

Spells from Potter

Concerning spells. Harry Potter, although not very well studied in the school of wizards, but knew a lot of spells. Here are just some of them.

To extinguish the fire is applied "Aqua Eruktu". In order to reassure the girls who saw spiders, the latter are expelled by the phrase "Arania Exemi." If it is necessary to throw something up, "Volunteer Askandar" is spoken out. Was it necessary to make a hole in the floor? Please: "Deprimo!" And welcome downstairs. But these all spells for the Dementor are an empty sound and nothing more.

A spell that the Dementors are afraid of

He is afraid of only one use of the spell: "Expectro Patronum!". However, it is not enough just to utter this phrase, in order for the monster to leave the place of committing a crime and no longer bother with all of its insistent desire to kiss. Here you need practice, remarkable willpower, rich imagination and inhuman concentration of energy. Incidentally, even the great Harry Potter, whose dementors at first often reached out at every step, for a very long time could not learn this method of scaring monsters. Long sessions ended in failure, and only once did it work out as it should. The Dementors spell worked, and Harry finally fell asleep, confident in his ability to deal with these monsters.

The guards of the prison for magicians

So, to the question of who these dementors are and how to scare them away, the answers are given. It is not clear yet, who these creatures are by "profession", what is their role and what they are called to do.

Dementors are guards, very disciplined and trained. The object of the protection of the Dementors is the impenetrable, huge in the human sense of size prison with the ominously sounding name of Azkaban. Once upon a time the evil magician Ekridizis entertained himself with the torture of sailors. And it did it with benefit for myself, studying on the victims their spells.

The Dementors originally lived on the island on which this prison is located. In ancient times, one of the ministers of magic named Damocles Rowley made a proposal in which he spoke about the effectiveness of creating a prison here. Dementors, these craftsmen instill real horror, found a suitable job: to guard the disgraced magicians and wizards who committed serious crimes.

Prison of Azkaban: prisoners

So there was a legendary prison, only a passing mention of which horrifies "not the Muggles". Rowley's successor once appeared here decades after the prison began to work and was shocked by the inhuman treatment of prisoners. He ordered to improve the situation, but the dementors and the prison administration ignored this order. Apparently, the minister was not an authority for them.

The prisoner of Azkaban is doomed to suffer and suffer, there is no one to help him from. Mainly for the walls of this terrible establishment fell adherents of the dark policy of Woland-de-Mort, although not having committed crimes also by mistake turned out to be here.

The building of gray color rushes up hundreds of meters. Its walls are durable and seem impenetrable and impregnable. Although some experts say that it is still possible to leave the building. Sirius Black, a loyal supporter of Harry Potter, would most likely agree with them. He is also a prisoner of Azkaban, and probably fully knew the "charm" of this prison on his own skin, as they say.

Dementors and school of magic

Who are such dementors, the reader will find out only in the third "Potteriana". The ministers of magic decided that the Dementors were just perfect guards for the school of young wizards. Faceless monsters, having received a new appointment and feeling freedom, decided to immediately fool around: they had a small inspection of the train that followed at Hogwarts, which was marked by a loss of consciousness by Harry Potter. However, not only Harry at that moment became ill, his enemy Draco Malfoy, howling with fear and shaking like a reed in the wind, almost got under the shelf for passengers when approaching monsters. Truly, the disembodied Azkaban guard terrifies each of the wizards, but people can not be spoken about.

To understand who these dementors are, you need to study the name itself. "Dementor" is a derivative of the word dement, which means "driving crazy". There is another version of the origin of the name, in which it is asserted that the Latin word demos was meant - terrifying. Be that as it may, but all this fully corresponds to the description of this being.

Curious about the Dementors

• The unshakable block of Hogwarts, the indisputable authority for Harry Potter, the magician Dumbledore, and he treated the Dementors with extreme suspicion and apprehension. He argued with the Ministry about the dangers of using dementors as guards.
• Harry Potter compared the Dementors with demons, monsters from hell. In general, many bad names were given by the protagonist to these creatures and have never responded positively to them.
• In the computer game LEGO Harry Potter, the leader of the Dementors is involved, different from the brethren in the color of the apparel.
• In the same "toy" spell "Expectro Patronum" did not stop the Dementor, but only slowed it down.
• Dementors in their current hooded appearance were shown only in the third part of the epic Harry Potter. In other episodes, the Dementor "flaunts" without a hood, and the viewer clearly sees how unusual and repulsive this remarkable creature looks.
• Who are the Dementors? We answer: wasps. There is such a kind, named after the heroes of the film about "Harry Potter".
• Attacks of the Dementors have caused panic among the people. On the wave of hysteria, various amulets, secret spells, began to be sold, which in fact had no power, but the magicians and wizards still bought them from scammers because of fear of losing their lives.

The power of the dementor in the weakness of the enemy

Many powerful masters passed down before the demoners only because they could not realize the image of Patronum. Wizards who have seen a lot of grief and hardship in their lives, are not able to find additional forces to deal with the impact of these creatures. The older the wizard, the weaker he is for the Dementor, and whiners and grumblers do not survive at all. Positively minded people - that's who the real fighters are. Not every Dementor will approach them, because it is fraught with very pitiful consequences for him. Using the tips of experienced Harry Potter mentors, each of us can learn to counteract the Dementors, which, frankly, there are many among the people.