It’s already established that dementors can talk, but I tend to think of them like chatbots; they can exchange information in a limited domain, but get them out of the domain they usually operate, and while they’ll still say things (like the dementor tellign Quirrell it would hunt him down,) it doesn’t acually mean anything regarding its behavior, you’re just projecting some sort of characteristic babble onto it.
True, but it doesn’t have to actually communicate anything to its peers at azkaban. People just need to believe it did. It’s obviously threatened in the middle of a court room, then starts flying to azkaban. Most people are going to presume that after something like that the dementors would leave Hermione alone. If they are consensus!dementors, not some-motive!dementors they’ll still leave her alone, because people will believe they will leave her alone.
if they’re some-motive!dementors, they’ll leave her alone because they don’t want to die. Either way he wins.
It’s already established that dementors can talk, but I tend to think of them like chatbots; they can exchange information in a limited domain, but get them out of the domain they usually operate, and while they’ll still say things (like the dementor tellign Quirrell it would hunt him down,) it doesn’t acually mean anything regarding its behavior, you’re just projecting some sort of characteristic babble onto it.
True, but it doesn’t have to actually communicate anything to its peers at azkaban. People just need to believe it did. It’s obviously threatened in the middle of a court room, then starts flying to azkaban. Most people are going to presume that after something like that the dementors would leave Hermione alone. If they are consensus!dementors, not some-motive!dementors they’ll still leave her alone, because people will believe they will leave her alone.
if they’re some-motive!dementors, they’ll leave her alone because they don’t want to die. Either way he wins.