
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.
