Dementors

by GuidingHand

Dementors are the happiest creatures on Earth! The darkness and emptiness left behind means little more to them than the cow remains from our cheeseburgers means to most of us. This is a symposium of scientific articles about dementors, the history of dementors and excerpts from their daily lives.

1. Needs and Destruction

Needs and Destruction

By Alexandros Ruino

Master of Magical Creatures

Chicago, IL

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In order to survive species seek out their needs. For most of us those needs include food, water, shelter, and air. As humans, we also often have need of energy. In pursuit of these needs we leave a train of destruction…

…mis-treated farm animals,

…polluted lakes and streams,

…deforested landscapes,

…CO2 laden air.

Many care little for the destruction left in their wake.

Dementors are the same, seeking their own needs with little to no regard for the destruction they cause. They have no need of water, food or shelter. Their need is happiness. Happiness is their energy source, their food, their means of reproduction. To them, the shell of human they leave behind is like the carbon released from cars while driving, it is just a bi-product of the car and though some talk the talk, few actually choose to walk. The need is fulfilled and the damage done is ignored.

Dementors seek their happiness, their need, ghosting from person to person, stealing thoughts, those oh so delicious happy memories…

…picnics,

…quiditch games,

… days at the beach,

… pranks on friends,

…the ever popular knock, knock joke…

On and on the list goes.

We, of course, find the creatures terrifying as they bring to mind our worst memories. Bringing forth horrible memories is a hunting technique. While the human is distracted with what troubles them the dementor is able to consume good memories. The depressed human or empty shell left behind is, in their mind, comparable to the empty plate we leave at the end of a meal.

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I wrote this article not to diminish the travesty of their effects on humans, but to enlighten the public as to the dementor's motives. Just as methods have been found to minimize our effects on the environment, perhaps methods are yet to be discovered on how to provide dementors with their need while minimizing or negating their effects on the human population.

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Originally Printed in Chicago Wands the leading provider of magazines to muggleborns and their families.