Is Death a Dementor?

Hey Brother!

In Deathly Hallows, we are briefly introduced to the character of Death,

when Xenophilius is telling the golden trio

the tale of the three brothers.

It is said that the three brothers of the tale met death on a lonely road and outsmarted him and were therefore each gifted an object by death at their request.

And as we all know, this resulted in the creation

of the three deathly Hallows.

The first brother, Antioch, requested a wand

that could defeat any other wand and was gifted the elder wand.

The second brother, Cadmus, wanted to recall the dead and was gifted the resurrection stone.

And the third brother, Harry's own ancestor Ignotis, wanted to hide from death and was gifted

death's own cloak of invisibility, under which he hid and evaded death for the rest of his entire life before finally

greeting him like an old friend.

When Dumbledore meets Harry and King's Cross, however, he suggests that the brothers didn't actually meet death.

Whether they met death on a lonely road, I think it's more likely that the Pevereaux brothers were simply gifted dangerous wizards who succeeded in creating those powerful objects.

The story of them being Death's own Hallows seems to me the sort of legend that might have sprung up around such creations.

And since the initial story is coming from a book of fairy tales,

and Dumbledore is usually right in his guesses,

it's easy to conclude that death in the fairy tale is not an actual being but more like a concept brought to life for the sake of creating a more entertaining story.

And yet even Dumbledore is hedging a little bit saying it's just more likely

leaving the door open to the possibility that death is a real being within the wizarding world.

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