gwern comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong
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Maybe. On the other hand, he's in a hall of people who all strongly believe that Dementors would never do any such thing and will obey their commands.
So you're going with Harry's initial idea, that Dementors are controlled by expectations? If that's the case, then yeah, it probably won't work.