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I question the Harry Potter books a lot.

But there's one thing in particular that I've always more or less accepted at face value

with no regard for how it actually unfolds.

And that thing is how the ministry and others communicate with what are essentially

immortal, wraith-like spirits that, as far as I know, do not possess the ability to speak.

I'm of course talking about dementors.

Adding even more mystery to this question is the fact that underneath that hood of theirs,

the dementors have a hole where their mouth is supposed to be, along with some

black holes for eyes. We know that the Ministry of Magic controls them to some extent,

but I suppose you could argue that this is an unspoken arrangement whereby Dementers are allowed to

thrive at Asgaban prison in exchange for relative peace between the two factions. But as it happens, there are passages from the books

which strongly suggest Dementus relayed information to fudge in the ministry in the form of words

strung together. Therefore, today I want to tackle the question of can Dementas speak

and equally as important how let's dive in

Hey everyone welcome to another installment of Harry Potter theory for starters I'm not sure that

Dementors are even something that you'd want to communicate

with.

They are 3-meter-tool cloaked immortal non-beings with dark grey scabby skin and a face

that looks like a decaying corpse.

And adding another layer of difficulty to attempted communication with them is the fact that

when you're in their immediate presence, they suck away all of your

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