OMG DEMENTORS

itsdoctordonna:

So a fan commented that the obscurial in fantastic beasts looked like a baby dementor and JKR said she “liked the thought.” She refused to confirm or deny its correctness/possibility. BUT WHAT IF SHE USES IT OMG.

Dementors don’t yet have a birth story/backstory–and because Hagrid doesn’t keep one as a pet, I assume they live a long time and have a short, dark childhood (because he generally adopts baby creatures.) Beyond that, FB notes that “there used to be more” obscurials, and after a while they stopped occurring so often, likely with the decline/end of popular witch-hunts. Dementors could have a long or eternal natural life, and HP never talks about how to kill them. If FB’s scene of killing the obscurial itself is canon, then it takes immense power to kill one; if an obscurial is a baby dementor, then fully grown dementors would be virtually unkillable. Which would make sense, since HP never talks about how to fully kill a dementor and we can more or less assume it to be impossible.

We know that obscurial children die young. But whether the obscurial itself dies is unclear. Spells can work in the absence/death of a wizard, so why couldn’t obscurials? Remember, they don’t kill Credence in his human form; they strike at the obscurial. They kill the obscurial itself, which may be the only time it can be killed. Obscurial children might not be able to survive if their obscurial is killed, even if the cloud itself is capable of doing so. They’re basically a manifestation of a wizards power, aka a major version of a spell. Because it is a major manifestation, basically a part of the child’s life and soul, I find it totally possible that obscurials become dementors as they age.

TLDR: OBSCURIALS AS BABY DEMENTORS FITS INTO THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE LIKE A PERFECT PUZZLE PIECE

This seems quite legit after all we know from the HP world that Dementors are infamous for sucking out all your happy memories and leaving you with nothing but dreadful ones. And we also know from FBAWTFT world that a Obscurial is formed after a child has forcibly restrained themselves from developing their magical powers.

My thoughts are that is it possible that the Dementors are interested in sucking out the happy memories was because when their hosts were alive, they had a rather unpleasant life which in turn causing them to a hole of some sorts that they have the urge to fill up. And hence, the sucking of happy memories from others.

Newt: Jacob.. Jacob I need to tell you a secret
Jacob: ok..
Newt: but you can’t tell anyone,, it’s secret and I’m only telling you because you’re my best friend ok??
Jacob: ok…
Newt: I… I like Tina..
Jacob: Newt you dork you’ve been married for 5 years
Newt: ….but I still like her….

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ladyflowdi:

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pleatedjeans:

Three cheers for these guys [x]

This is how to be a good ally.

Using their Bro-ness for good, not evil

So a tiny story: on Black Friday a few weeks ago I went to Gamestop to buy my brother a game for Christmas, and I noticed this older man was watching me like a hawk. He was loitering around the front of the store without really buying anything, and every time I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye he was looking at me. I went to look at the PS4 games, and he was looking at something right behind me. I checked out the Nintendo games, and he was looking at them too. I was the only woman in the store, by the way.

By the time I got in line to pay he was loitering at the front of the store again, and I just had that feeling that he was going to try and take the game I just bought, or steal my purse, as soon as I left the store. OR, he was going to try and follow me home. And I know I don’t have to explain that terror to any woman reading this, but all I could think was that I’m in this Gamestop alone with at least twenty other men and something is about to happen. I’m beginning to freak out, to the point where I’ve just pulled my pepper spray out of my purse and into the pocket of my coat. 

So there I am, next in line to pay, and there is this GIGANTIC dudebro right behind me, and I say gigantic as a 6 foot tall woman. He says, “Ma’am? Don’t be offended, but would it be alright if I walked you to your car?” and I was like “Are you serious?” and he was like “There are some weird guys in here right now. Have you noticed that guy watching you?” and then I showed the dudebro the pepper spray in my pocket and he was like “Right on. Would you still let me walk you to your car?” and I said yes.

So I paid, and waited while HE paid, and he walked me to my car. And just as I was getting in, the weird guy who’d been loitering came out of the store, saw me and my dudebro, and turned around and walked away in the opposite direction. 

In short: men who recognize that women are unsafe in dark alleys, college campuses, grocery stores, gas stations and retail stores and do something about it are the kind of quality men that this world needs more of.

Please for the love of god yes.

Hell yes.

Source: pleatedjeans