The Dementors followed Voldemort because he could promise them free victims. The Dementors need happiness to suck out of people so they can survive, and Voldemort could give them people.
The Dementors only stayed at Azkaban to feed on the energy and emotions of the inmates, which were all Death Eaters. So when Voldemort came back to power, the Dementors left Azkaban with the Death Eaters, because there was more happy souls out in the world.
Death Eaters do not kiss people to make them unhappy, they kiss people to suck that persons soul out. The Dementors Aura makes people unhappy. Only the patronus works at staving off a dementor, because a patronus is the purest form of happiness possible.
2007-11-16 02:45:54
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answer #1
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answered by Soccer Hooligan 4
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Dementors don't eat. They live off happy thoughts that they drain out of people around them.
Their kiss is not trying to be friendly, That is the way they SUCK SOULS out of people.
Dementors were given more people to attack when they worked for Voldemort. Some stayed to drain the happiness from Mudbloods, while others went to Muggle villages, using mists to thrive in
2007-11-16 00:07:12
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answer #2
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answered by wizebloke 7
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dementors enjoy sucking the happiness and occasionally the souls out of people, since they are "dark" creatures and that what they thrive upon. they were used by the ministry of magic to punish wrong-doing witches and wizards and had to be restrained. however, when voldemort came to power, he offered them lots of happiness to suck out and to be able to suck souls out whenever they wanted, which was the best thing they could ever want, so they joined him.
2007-11-16 00:52:45
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answer #3
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answered by Silver Phoenix 4
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Well would you want Lord Voldemort kissing you .
2007-11-16 00:06:15
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answered by ziggy_brat 6
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It seems to me you are ready to read the HP books over again. Why not... you liked them once, but apparently missed some things you are curious about now... so now is the time to read them again! If you read them quickly the first time, slow down a bit and take time to think about what you're reading.
2007-11-16 00:09:40
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answer #5
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answered by LK 7
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The Dementors are soulless creatures[11] considered to be among the foulest beasts on Earth. They are soul-sucking fiends who guard the wizard prison, Azkaban. In the books, Dementors appear to have a generally human shape, approximately ten feet (3.05 meters) in height, but covered in dark, hooded cloaks which reveal only grey, decayed hands. The wraith-like creatures have no eyes, and there is a large hole where the mouth should be. According to the author, they grow like fungi in the darkest, dankest places, creating a dense, chilly fog. This effect is cumulative with the number of Dementors, and large numbers can effectively freeze even a lake with merely their presence. They are unique, compared to other magical creatures, with their ability to glide (fly in the film adaptations) unsupportedly in either the human or wizarding world.
Dementors are invisible to Muggles, but affect them in the same way. While at least one Squib in the series has claimed to see a Dementor, Rowling has stated that this was a lie and she noticed it because of the effect it had on her.[12] Rowling has likened the effect of a Dementor to the human ailment known as depression, which the author has herself experienced.[13] She describes it as "that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad."[14]
Being blind, Dementors sense and feed on the positive emotions, happiness and good memories of human beings to move around, forcing them to relive their worst memories. The very presence of a Dementor makes the surrounding atmosphere grow cold and dark, and the effects are cumulative with the number of Dementors present. Despite their attachment to human emotion, Dementors seem to have difficulty distinguishing one human from another, as demonstrated by Barty Crouch Jr's escape from Azkaban, wherein they could detect no emotional/mental difference between the younger Crouch and his mother. In addition to feeding on positive emotions, Dementors can perform the Dementor's Kiss, where the Dementor latches its mouth onto a victim's and sucks out the person's soul. The victim is left as an empty shell, incapable of thought and with no possibility of recovery. It is believed that existing after a Dementor's Kiss is worse than death. The Ministry of Magic occasionally uses this as a punishment, such as on Barty Crouch Jr. One way to shield oneself from Dementors is to use the Patronus Charm to drive them away. Chocolate is an effective first aid to mild cases of contact.
Harry Potter first encountered Dementors during his third year of school, when they were sent to guard Hogwarts against Sirius Black, who had recently escaped Azkaban Prison. Harry, whenever he got near one, was forced to relive his worst memory: hearing the last moments of his parents' lives before they were murdered by Lord Voldemort, which begins with Harry hearing his mother screaming. To overcome the Dementors, Harry asked Remus Lupin for assistance. Lupin taught Harry the Patronus Charm, albeit with some difficulty.
Harry's encounter with Dementors in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was in an alley near his home on Privet Drive, when he and his cousin Dudley Dursley were ambushed by two Dementors sent secretly and illegally by Dolores Umbridge. At the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Dementors of Azkaban stage a mass revolt against their employers to join Lord Voldemort, as he can provide them with more humans to feast upon.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the Ministry, under the control of Voldemort, used Dementors to punish those who were Muggle born for no other reason than because Voldemort hated Muggles and Muggle borns. The Dementors also took part on Voldemort's side during the Battle of Hogwarts. After the appointment of Kingsley Shacklebolt to the position of Minister, Dementors are removed from Azkaban. Rowling said that after Voldemort's demise, Dementors will never be used by the Ministry of Magic again and the Ministry will contain them by limiting their numbers.
2007-11-16 14:22:22
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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the Demontors thrive off of peoples souls
that is how they live
2007-11-16 00:25:49
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answered by chocolatelvr 4
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