![]() ![]() Somewhere between 17, Minister Eldritch Diggory visited Azkaban and was horrified at the sheer despair and insanity that the Dementors induced within the prisoners. ![]() From that point on, the Dementors served the Ministry of Magic as the guards of Azkaban, as the arrangement allowed them to feed on the emotions of the prisoners within its walls. This plan was eventually put into motion and, despite protests, Azkaban remained the prison of the wizarding world right up until the Second Wizarding War, mostly because of its near-zero breakout rate. When Damocles Rowle was elected Minister for Magic in 1718, he insisted on utilising Azkaban's Dark pedigree, seeing the Dementors as a potential asset: putting them to work as guards would save expense, time, and lives. Fearing the reprisal of these Dark entities should anyone try to evict them, the Ministry decided to let the sizeable colony remain unchecked. Those who entered the deserted fortress to investigate discovered, among other horrors, an infestation of Dementors. After his death, the various concealment charms placed on the island faded, and the Ministry became aware of the mysterious site's existence. ![]() Perhaps its first resident, or even creator, Ekrizdis, practised the worst kinds of Dark Arts and constructed a fortress on the island, luring Muggle sailors there to torture and murder them. The island in the North Sea on which the wizard prison was built had never appeared on any map, wizard or Muggle. The history of Dementors in relation to the wizarding society in Britain was inextricably tied up with one location: Azkaban. The villagers fought off the Dementors with their Patronuses but were overpowered, until a young wizard called Illyius conjured a small but powerful mouse Patronus, repelling all the Dementors from the village and saving it. Upon being refused marriage to a witch named Eliana from a wizarding village, Raczidian ordered his Dementors to destroy the village unless Eilana was brought to him. " Those who entered to investigate refused afterwards to talk of what they had found inside, but the least frightening part of it was that the place was infested with dementors." - The early history of Azkaban Īccording to an ancient story, the Dark wizard Raczidian lived with a colony of Dementors at his castle. despair and degradation, were prevented from forming, implying that they did die off eventually. They seemingly could not be destroyed, though their numbers could be limited if the conditions in which they multiply, i.e. Dementors held no true loyalty, except to whoever could provide them with the most people to feed on. There were certain defences one could use against Dementors, specifically the Patronus Charm. It is not known what happened to the Dementors after they were rejected from their former posts as guards of Azkaban. After the end of the Second Wizarding War in 1998, the Ministry was re-formed, and newly-appointed Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt ensured that they were not used by the government again, presumably due to their changing allegiance and support of Voldemort, and due to ethical reforms in the Ministry and Wizarding society at large. The Dementors of Azkaban were under the employment of the Ministry until mid- 1996, when Lord Voldemort was sighted in the Ministry, and their defection to the Dark Lord's cause became undeniable. ĭementors were closely associated with Azkaban, as they were formerly employed by the British Ministry of Magic as the prison guards, and were not known to permanently inhabit any other location. They could also consume a person's soul, leaving their victims in a permanent vegetative state, and thus were often referred to as " soul-sucking fiends", and the people they left soulless were deemed to have been turned into an "empty-shell". Dementors literally fed on human happiness and thus generated feelings of depression and despair in any person in close proximity to them. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life, and you will just be an empty shell that lost its soul." - Remus Lupin's description of Dementors Ī Dementor was a gliding, wraithlike Dark creature, widely considered to be one of the foulest of the Dark creatures to inhabit the wizarding world. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. " Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. ![]()
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