Chapter 62.
Well, that was interesting.
I'm wondering whether the general opinion of Harry as dark is going to change as a result of a freaking phoenix following him around.
Incidentally, I've honestly got mixed feelings about this issue. Dumbledore is completely correct in his "it's not that simple" sentiment but Dementors are evil.
I'm actually wondering whether Wizards in general agree with Azkaban torture or if they just feel that Dementors have to be dealt with somehow. Since everyone 'knows' they're invulnerable, they decided to deal with them by assigning them the role of prison wardens. There's not much else that you can do against an enemy that cannot die except to reach some sort of an agreement with them. In the end, it's probably better if they prey on prisoners then on everyone else. It's monstrous, yes, but does anyone here honestly have a better solution, if you accept the premise that Dementors are indestructible?
If that's the case then Harry keeping his uber-Patronus secret might actually be detrimental to his cause of ridding the world of Dementors.
It's monstrous, yes, but does anyone here honestly have a better solution, if you accept the premise that Dementors are indestructible?
Were I involved in the decision-making, and assuming the Dementors are not just indestructible but also unimprisonable, unteleportable-to-the-surface-of-Jupiter, and so forth, I'd like to think I would present the following argument: "Right now, we can't defeat the Dementors, so we do best to negotiate some kind of agreement with them. We ought to continue researching a way to defeat them, and implement it when we f...
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