h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, you're part right on your discription of dementers. there are another two aspects to their torture. In the process of feeding of your hapiness, you will endlessly relive your worst memories. they can also suck out your soul through their lips.

Cadogan: "well met young squires, I would have easily fended off those demon types if I wasn't a painting i ould have given them one of these! *swings sword wildly* and one of these *swings sword randomly* and finished it off with this" *runs into a tree* "well, maybe not one of those, persay. but you see what I mean!"

Whatever.

The word "Dementor" comes from the word depression. When in the presence of a Dementor you lose all happy feelings and feel that you will never be happy again, much like being depressed or suffering depression. The way to feel better when suffering depression is to eat chocolate which contains something to 'lift spirits' so to speak. JK Rowling's Professor Lupin gave Harry and company chocolate after being in the presence of the Dememtor.

And of course a Patronus is about the opposite of a Dementor.

Not just that, it protects the owner, like a powerfull protector: As in a patron.

That chocolate sounds suspiciously like drugs to me!

What

Well it makes you nice and high and who knows it could be addictive. I know lets market it.

*Shrugs.*

I'm afraid Hersheys has already beaten you to the punch... sorry.

IMHO, 'Dementor' seems more similar to 'dementia' than 'depression'. Dementia is a form of mild insanity, which I imagine would be triggered by having to constantly relive your worst memories - unless of course you're an already insane sado-masochist, in which case the Dementors would probably have little or no power over you. And Cadbury's seems to have beaten Hershey's.

I think that in 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' the movie, the dementors are going to be pretty scary. I recently read the first three Harry Potters again, and I've decided the first is the best. I agree that Cadburys beats Hersheys overall, but I love Hershey's Cookies and Cream and also the peanut butter cups.

I think the dementors are going to be a cross between the Nazgûl from LOTR and Death from Monty Python's meaning of life.

Ever read the "wheel of time" series, theres a creature in those that has the ability to suck souls out of people through their mouths too, can't recall what their name was though...

Quite likely, Rowling did quite a lot of shopping for her books.

*whistles, and is bored*

That makes 2 of us. I've been watching my convo list for about 2 hours, it's hardly twitched.