Yes, that ideology is precisely what bothers me. Eliezer has a bone to pick with death so he declares death to be the ultimate enemy. Dementors now represent death instead of depression, patronus now uses life magic, and a spell that is based on hate is now based on emptiness. It’s all twisted to make it fit the theme, and it feels forced. Especially when there’s a riddle and the answer is ‘Eliezer’s password’.
I don’t know if MoR influenced the movies, but Deathly Hallows 1 or 2 showed an image of Death looking like the movie’s image of Dementors. It seems to me like a natural inference.
Isn’t that because the only static element of a dementor’s appearance is its black, concealing cloak, and that overlaps neatly with the Grim Reaper portrayal of death?
You say that like Rowling had no choice but to use this well-known image for Dementors. Also, they’re supposed to look somewhat like corpses underneath.
What are you trying to argue in the great-grandparent? What am I supposed to take from the black cloaks, aside from the fact that it makes Dementors look like Death? I can imagine that perhaps Rowling chose this appearance because it allowed a frightening reveal later on. But that reveal uses the words “rotting”, “death” and “deathly”. On our first sight of a Dementor she also compares it to something “dead” and “decayed”. She did this because fear of death seems near as universal as you can get. Dementors’ most feared ability, destruction of the soul, has the same explanation.
The parallels that MoR!Harry sees are real, and they exist because death is (widely held to be) bad.
Yes, that ideology is precisely what bothers me. Eliezer has a bone to pick with death so he declares death to be the ultimate enemy. Dementors now represent death instead of depression, patronus now uses life magic, and a spell that is based on hate is now based on emptiness. It’s all twisted to make it fit the theme, and it feels forced. Especially when there’s a riddle and the answer is ‘Eliezer’s password’.
I don’t know if MoR influenced the movies, but Deathly Hallows 1 or 2 showed an image of Death looking like the movie’s image of Dementors. It seems to me like a natural inference.
Isn’t that because the only static element of a dementor’s appearance is its black, concealing cloak, and that overlaps neatly with the Grim Reaper portrayal of death?
You say that like Rowling had no choice but to use this well-known image for Dementors. Also, they’re supposed to look somewhat like corpses underneath.
I increasingly feel like I’ve lost track of what you’re trying to argue here. Would you mind recapitulating it for me?
What are you trying to argue in the great-grandparent? What am I supposed to take from the black cloaks, aside from the fact that it makes Dementors look like Death? I can imagine that perhaps Rowling chose this appearance because it allowed a frightening reveal later on. But that reveal uses the words “rotting”, “death” and “deathly”. On our first sight of a Dementor she also compares it to something “dead” and “decayed”. She did this because fear of death seems near as universal as you can get. Dementors’ most feared ability, destruction of the soul, has the same explanation.
The parallels that MoR!Harry sees are real, and they exist because death is (widely held to be) bad.