Dementors are extremely dark and disturbing, as they feed off of a person's happiness and joy, leaving them only with their ...

In Harry Potter, Dementors first appear in The Prisoner of ... Rowling writes, “Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you.” ...

Rowling apparently based the "cold, unfeeling" Dementors on her personal experience ... Meghan DeMaria From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

Dementors were first described in “Harry Potter ... hope and happiness out of the air around them … Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out ...

Dementors come in all shapes in sizes ... Rowling’s response? There is so much good J.K. Rowling’s tweet. She reminds us (among other things) that it’s so important to ask for help ...

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that ... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long ...

Tumblr has figured out exactly why dementors affect Harry more than other people in the books — or at the very least, they have a pretty damn compelling theory. And we have a good excuse for it ...

What we do know is that, in the Manichean world of J.K. Rowling, Patronuses are a good form of magic that serves partly as a foil to the bad magic of dementors. Patronuses are, in other words ...

As we all know, Dementors “can sense and feed on positive ... sighting was merely a mistake and not the real deal. (And good thing that Essexville, Michigan, has a police department that is ...