5. Why So Serious, Dementors?
If you really think about it, the fact that the Dementors personify depression is pretty obvious. I mean, it isn’t that big of a leap. Yet, the reasons why this disease was chosen is a little less obvious. Rowling has admitted that she wrote in these freaky guys because of her own struggles with depression. The feelings that the characters feel when Dementors are near is described as having all happiness and all joy sucked right out of the air. The fact that they “kiss you” in order to suck out the good in your life might mean nothing, but it also might be representative of your conniving, backstabbing, ungrateful ex Jeneane. I don’t know. Maybe not. It could mean a lot of things.
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