diagon alley at night on 35mm film

yer a wizard Harry...

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captured by: @hmkfilm

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also i'm still mad that literally the week that we were at universal is precisely the one week they closed down the hogwarts express for maintenance

Oral Surgery: The Dementor's Kiss

This has been bothering me since I first read PoA, and the later exploration in the series of ghosts, the afterlife, and Horcruxes has only further befuddled me on the subject: what in creation happens to a soul after a dementor sucks it out of a person?

Logistically, the dementor's kiss is bizarre to me on a number of levels. To start with, the body survives after the soul is removed. I guess having soulless shells of humans walking the Earth adds a creepiness factor, but it's also an odd detail. Why leave the body alive? Through what mechanism are dementors able to dislodge a soul from its body without harming or killing the body? I used to think that perhaps by sucking out the soul of a person, they turn that person into a dementor, but that doesn't seem to be indicated in canon. In PoA Remus says:

If it can, the dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself...soul-less and evil. You'll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.

"Something like itself" suggests that he does not mean that you turn into an actual dementor. He also says "soul-less and evil" which has some interesting implications. It's possible that he means the state of a soulless person is inherently evil, not in the sense that it commits evil deeds, but more in the sense that it is a horrible thing that should not exist. But it's also possible that he is saying that a person, when left with nothing but their worst memories and thoughts, is naturally inclined toward committing atrocities and, in the absence of positive thoughts, is rendered incapable of positive deeds. A valid conclusion to draw and one of the myriad of reasons Azkaban is a terrible idea: taking a bunch of criminals and exposing them to beings that will make them soulless and evil is certainly not going to improve matters.

Remus also later claims there is "no chance at all of recovery" from the Kiss, but I think he's just lacking in creativity. I don't remember where I saw this, but someone somewhere floated the idea of taking the soul fragment out of a Horcrux and putting it into the body of someone who had been Kissed, which isn't recovery per se, but it sure is something.

You can exist without a soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working.

Sure, Remus, I guess you can, but genuinely why would you keep someone alive like that unless you're planning to do some fucked up magic and put a new soul fragment or a ghost in there? It's like leaving a remote control with no batteries on a table forever. What good is that doing anyone? For what possible purpose would anyone keep these shells of people alive? To keep them as the world's most unsettling pets? Fuck's sake, put them to rest, please.

That's just the empty body though. What about the soul? And what exactly is a soul in the WWoHP? (Conveniently, @artemisia-black and @ashesandhackles published this meta today, which offers further exploration on the topic) We can infer what a soul is based on how Remus describes the body without a soul:

But you'll have no sense of self, no memory, no...anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just--exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone...forever lost.

"No anything" is about as vague as you could possibly be, thank you Remus, but we at least know that all your memories and sense of self are contained in the soul. Seems like maybe your memories should be stored in the brain where they belong, but Remus says they're in the soul and who am I to argue? And Diary Riddle is a great illustration of how all-encompassing even half a soul is. Diary Riddle has memories, thoughts, ambitions, plans, etc. It seems that the body and brain are the machine, capable of functioning independently to an extent, but the soul is the substance of a person.

The fact that dementors feed on souls, in addition to happiness and joy, also implies something about the very nature of a soul. Something that is also implied by Remus' comment of "soul-less and evil". Souls, intact souls, are implied to be full of purity and goodness. You fracture your soul when you commit horrific deeds. All people seem to be born with an inherently good soul that they may mar and damage later with their wicked ways.

So a dementor makes out with you and you lose your soul, the whole of what makes you you. It is apparently "forever lost" but what does that actually mean? Let's say it is truly gone, lost, permanently deleted. You, as a substantial person, cease to exist. In a universe where an afterlife is a certainty proved by ghosts and reinforced by the Veil, it makes sense that ceasing to exist is "much worse" than death to someone like Remus (or Harry, or, indeed, most characters in the series). "You don't get to go to wizard heaven" does seem to be the fate-worse-than-death implied throughout the series.

Are the dementors sucking these souls into a black hole though? Why and how are they being wholly and completely destroyed? Souls can and are separated from the body (ghosts) or fragmented (Horcruxes) in the series without being utterly destroyed or losing their substance. And soul fragments are very difficult to destroy, that's a major plot point of DH. Do dementors have like...basilisk venom in their stomachs or something? How are they digesting a human soul?

I'm obviously way overthinking this. But I am also unable to stop overthinking this. What if dementors don't actually suck out souls for sustenance at all? What if they do it for protection? What if they're making themselves like living Horcruxes? We know that there is an established way to repel a dementor, but how do you kill the fuckers? We don't have any info on that. Maybe they are neigh on impossible to destroy once they've taken in enough souls because the souls function like armor. Maybe the souls are intact, more or less, in there, and they're just trapped for eternity inside the dementors. Which is presumably bad, but dementors are ingesting a bunch of happiness and joy, so maybe it's not even a fate worse than death, maybe it's a party in there. Who can say?

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Universal Studios (WWoHP) Youth Gray Hogwarts Crest Logo Hoodie Sweatshirt.

Late night thoughts: I've often found myself wanting to contribute more to the fandoms I'm in, such as Harry Potter, lotr, anime, etc. but I don't really know what I'd like to do. I finally started writing fanfiction because of Hogwarts Legacy but I keep wanting to do more. I can't draw or sew and I can't make videos. I'm not as knowledgeable as everyone else and it is hard for me to memorize things like history (love British culture/history) and lore. I don't really know what to do besides just continuing to make fanfics, buying the merch, and going to places like wwohp and the london tour.

I have kind of wanted to make videos at some times but I have social anxiety and hate my voice, plus I have no professional microphones and would have to use my macbook microphone (and have never made videos in my entire life). I also wouldn’t be as deep/detailed as other content creators and I wouldn’t be able to come up with a constant stream of content. I could make videos on the hogwarts houses, especially my house Slytherin and talk about why people should really stop with the stereotypes but I don't know how I'd continue to come up with new things. And I want to make cool edits on tiktok of my hogwarts legacy characters and make funny content and make tiktoks of me in the harry potter world but the ideas for those escape me and it's hard to come up with them (and I'm not a tech person).

I don't think about it all the time, but sometimes I just sit and think "I want to do more." It just feels like the things I can do are limited and sometimes I just want to show my love for things in other ways, but I never know how exactly I want to show that love. I'll probably forget about this tomorrow but just wanted to get it out lol I get so contemplative and emotional at night 😂

【隠れスポット】USJ ハリー・ポッター エリア  隠れスポットまとめ タグ ページ

【隠れスポット】ハリポタ エリア入口ストーンゲートウェイ

【隠れスポット】嘆きのマートル USJ ハリポタ エリアのトイレ

【隠れスポット】スネイプ先生の部屋 USJ ハリポタ エリア

【隠れスポット】自動筆記羽根ペン

【隠れスポット】ニュート・スキャマンダーの肖像画

【隠れスポット】マンドレイク

【隠れスポット】ふくろう時計

【隠れスポット】マッド・アイ・ムーディーのステッキ（杖）

【隠れスポット】ステファニー・マクミラン 魔女の本

【隠れスポット】三本の箒 ドビーなど影絵が出現！？

【隠れスポット】グリフィンドールの剣

【隠れスポット】本当に郵便を出せる『ふくろうポスト』

I’m a Ravenclaw if you adhere to canon alignment.

A Ravenclaw-Slytherin if you adhere to dual alignment.

However I also have a big ass personality and sometimes just say that Hogwarts is my house.

That’s right, I’m the entire castle.

A great view of the Leaky Cauldron. #AfterDark * * * * 📸 Daniel Johnson #unofficialuniversalorlandopodcast #universalorlando #uuop #universalstudiosflorida #usf #uor #universalorlandoresort #uoap #ioa #islandsofadventure #wizardingworld #diagonalley #wwohp (at Universal Studios Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf1uyuDockI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

bro tell me why universal decided to close down the hogwarts express completely for maintenance right exactly the week we're going to be here, like that's like half the reason i've been wanting to go to universal ;-;

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Universal Studios (WWoHP) Youth Gray Hogwarts Crest Logo Hoodie Sweatshirt.

Hogsmeade at Universal's Islands of Adventure

May 6 2018

sarahg170194

okay:

i looooveee Harry Potter, but haaaaate jk Rowling.