Can a human become a Dementor?

The person him/herself turns into a dementor gradually after having no happy thoughts for a long period of time. By sacking out others happiness it acts as a replacemet for what they lacked. Or it is like their last thought before they turn into that creature- to have happiness.
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Is a Dementor a human?

soulless and evil", which could mean that the Dementors were humans transformed by other Dementors. In respect to that, J.K. Rowling has said that Dementors don't breed, but grow like fungi where there is decay, and are functionally immortal in terms of age.
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Do Dementors exist?

Prepare To Be Terrified: A Real-Life Dementor Has Been Spotted In The Muggle World. Dementor's are real. In news that will have you hoarding chocolate and sifting through your memories to find the strongest, brightest one, a real-life dementor has been spotted by a group of terrifed muggles.
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Are Dementors alive?

Dementors in Harry Potter are creatures who are unable to die as they were never really alive. The Ministry of Magic classifies them as a non-being. As is mentioned above, they feed off of human happiness and therefore make any people in their vicinity very unhappy.
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What happens if a Dementor kissed you?

Description. When the Dementor's Kiss is performed the Dementor will pull back its hood, clamp its jaw around the victim's mouth, and consume his or her soul. The Dementor's Kiss is generally considered to be a punishment worse than death.
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History of Dementors (Everything You Need to Know)



How do you become a Dementor?

Dementors are born when there is so much pain and suffer in the air that it can materialise it's self. That means that most Dementors were created during the First and Second wizarding war or in the time of Grinwald's attacks in Europe. That's why Dementors can only be destroyed by the Patronum summoning charm.
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Why does chocolate help with Dementors?

Behind the scenes. It is possible that chocolate is used to ward off the effects following meeting a Dementor as it has chemicals inside it that stimulate the release of endorphins, which are chemicals produced by the body to combat stress and pain; often leading to feeling of increased happiness.
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Is there a real Azkaban?

Azkaban has existed since the fifteenth century and was not originally a prison at all. The island in the North Sea upon which the first fortress was built never appeared on any map, Muggle or wizarding, and is believed to have been created, or enlarged, by magical means.
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Do Dementors have legs?

Nothing written in canon, but in the concept art of the Prisoner of Azkaban film and in the video games, you can see that they don't have legs. The normal human spine that runs down from the head skull is present and it simply goes down in Dementors getting smaller and just ends and that's it.
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Do Dementors speak?

They sould be able to in order to inform ministry, make deal of guarding azkaban with ministry, joining voldemorts side. Al these actions require to communicate with people. From the Wiki, we know that they are indeed able to communicate/speak.
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Why can't Muggles see Dementors?

10 Even Muggles Can Sense Their Presence

While Muggles cannot see Dementors, their draining power is so strong that non-magical people can still sense them.
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Can Dementors be killed?

Dementors are amortal, meaning that you can't kill them because they were never alive to begin with (even though they do die off eventually ?).
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What do Dementors feed on?

Dementors feed on human happiness and thus generate feelings of depression and despair in any person in close proximity to them. They can also consume a person's soul, leaving their victims in a permanent vegetative state, and thus are often referred to as "soul-sucking fiends", rendering a person an 'empty-shell'.
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Do Dementors breed?

Dementors do not breed (No, there'll be no sweet sweet love in Azkaban tonight!) but rather grow like fungi under certain conditions. They multiply by feeding off human despair, unhappiness, hopelessness, and are akin to depression. They are pretty insidious creatures.
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Do Dementors have gender?

Description. Dementors are similar to their official counterparts on the surface, but actually possess feelings. It is clarified that they have genders and reproduce asexually.
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Who created Azkaban?

Well, that's because originally, Azkaban was a fortress built by the sorcerer Ekrizdis, who himself was a powerful and insane practitioner of the Dark Arts. Ekrizdis actually lured, tortured, and killed Muggle sailors there up until he died and the concealment charms faded.
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Can Dementors be controlled?

You cannot destroy Dementors, though you can limit their numbers if you eradicate the conditions in which they multiply, that is, despair and degradation. So it is possible that by controlling their exposure to despair and degradation, the MoM controlled the breeding of Dementors.
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Are the Dementors good?

They neither good nor evil they just strive to survive like every other animal. Dementors are non-beings, not animals.
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What happens if you touch a Dementor?

In the film adaptations, whenever a Dementor is sucking happiness or the soul out of their victim, there is a distortion in the victim's face and the air near him or her. The only two people in the books to ever witness a Dementor's Kiss were Minerva McGonagall and Cornelius Fudge, when the Dementor kissed Crouch.
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Where is Hogwarts?

In the novels, Hogwarts is somewhere in Scotland (the film Prisoner of Azkaban says that Dufftown is near). The school is depicted as having numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a Muggle to locate it.
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How do I get to Azkaban?

Since 1717, using any of the three Unforgivable Curses on another human being has carried the punishment of a life sentence in Azkaban (unless there is sufficient evidence that the caster did so under the influence of the Imperius Curse, or legal exceptions made by the Ministry of Magic as in the case of Aurors in the ...
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Who created the Sorting Hat?

10 The Hat Originally Belonged To Godric Gryffindor

However, while the entire quartet was in agreement over what needed to be done, it was Godric Gryffindor who came up with the actual idea of the Sorting Hat – even providing the headwear itself!
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Is Sirius Black evil?

And like Voldemort, Sirius is a public figure of evil – an entire legend has sprung up around the man and his improbable escape from Azkaban simply fuels the fire there.
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Why does Remus turn into a werewolf?

Remus was turned by Fenrir Greyback, who sought revenge on his father for his unkind words about the werewolf community. The attack took place just before his fifth birthday, and although Lyall burst in and saved his son from death, the attack left Remus as a werewolf himself.
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What is Hermione's Patronus?

Otter (Hermione Granger)

Hermione's talent with a wand was clear from her earliest lessons – swish and flick, it's all in the wrist. Her Patronus, the otter, is a clever and dexterous animal; some have even been known to juggle small rocks.
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