The Truth Behind HOW Dementors Are Created (REAL Origins) - Harry Potter Theory

[Music] hey everyone welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory today we're going to be discussing the Misunderstood origins of dementes the Wizarding world's enigmatic wraithlike creatures known for guarding aavan and sucking out Souls specifically we'll be taking a look at my theory on how Dementors were first created Dementors towering at 3 m tall are Sinister cloaked beings with dark gray scabby skin these malevolent creatures symbolize the embodiment of unhappiness and despair they are commonly known as the guards of aaban prison responsible for ensuring that all of the darkest witches and wizards inside do not Escape dementes were originally created by JY Rowling as a way of representing depression and so Rowling having experienced depression herself wanted to create a creature that personified all of the negative aspects Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this Earth they infest the darkest filthiest places they glory and Decay and despair they drain Peace Hope in happiness out of the air around them even Muggles feel their presence though they can't see them get too near a dementa and every good feeling every happy memory will be sucked out of you if it can the dementa will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself soulless and evil you'll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life but JK rling isn't the only creator of the Dementors there has to be an in Universe answer as well so where did they come from now when you look up this question most places will point you towards a dark wizard named aisus a man that is considered by many to be the father of dementes but I'm here today to put a spin on that a Cris isn't particularly welln but he certainly marked his place in visiting history as he was a practitioner of the worst kinds of dark arts imaginable very little is known about him other than the fact that he was alive during the 15th century and that he was evil pure evil no one even knows his nationality and if it was known I'm sure no one would want to claim ownership of him he was that bad aisus was the original inhabitant of the island Fortress of aaban what we now know is the prison that holds some of the darkest witches and wizards within its walls while traveling in the 15th century aisus stumbled upon the island which at the time had no infastructure to speak of when he first arrived it was just a regular Island but it didn't take long for chrus to corrupt the island and turn it into his own little dark arts experiment hoping to keep the location of the island which was located in North Sea a secret a crisis kick things off by placing concealment charms on the island meaning that no one would be able to intentionally find it after placing the concealment charms on the island AC Christus began his darkarts experiments by luring muggle Sailors to the island then torturing and eventually murdering them it has been said that before ever stepping foot on the island acrus was mad but that after spending some time there he became totally insane completely losing touch with reality he became so wrapped up and enthralled in his experimentation with dark magic that he had lost his mind and the poor Sailors that he lured to the island Witness it firsthand in his Madness it has been speculated that acrus either unwittingly or perhaps intentionally created what we now know to be ders but beyond this speculation there's absolutely no information on how AC Christus created them we also know that no one visited the island until acrus died the reason for this being that his concealment charms weren't lifted until his death and so when he died at the giant Island which acrus had enlarged simply appeared Ed out of nowhere which prompted the ministry of magic at the time to investigate 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 dementes many in Authority thought aaban an evil place that was best destroyed others were afraid of what might happen to the ders infesting the building if they deprived them of their home the creatures were already strong and impossible to kill many feared a horrible Revenge if they took away a habitat where they appeared to thrive the very walls of the building seemed steeped in misery and pain and the ders were determined to cling to it experts who had studied buildings built with and around dark magic contended that aaban might wreak its own Revenge upon anybody attempting to destroy it the Fortress was therefore left abandoned for many years a home to continually breeding dementes the prevailing theory for why aisus was the one to create dementes is that he was found found dead on an island full of them but that doesn't reveal any aspects related to how he created them here's what I think a Christus created one dementor and this one dementor took it from there we know that aisus performed dark arts experiments deemed unimaginable we also know that he lived on the island in secrecy for many many years occasionally luring sail is there via his concealment charms I think the first sailor that he lured to the island became patient zero I think this one sailor for as long as aistis remained on the island became his go-to for any and all kinds of Twisted dark arts experiments I think one poor man must have been on the receiving end of it all enduring years and years of torture from an incredibly Sinister dark Wizard and I think that it was this man that eventually in a roundabout way birthed a dementor let me explain in the Harry Potter Universe witches and wizards subject to trauma at a young age can manifest what is called an obscurus making them an obscure all this obscurus is a dark and powerful force created as a result of a young witch or wizard suppressing their magical abilities basically instead of learning to control and express their magic they bottle it up leading to the creation of an obscurus basically the trauma and fear is significant enough to create a powerful dark parasitic force and these obscurist are nothing to scoff at they're incredibly powerful very hard to contain and entirely unpredictable but my point is this the whole obscurius obscurial process demonstrates to me that when the stresses are significant enough magic can birth or create new dark magic and I think the original dementa was birthed or created from a man whose Soul was continually tormented for years and years the Sailor may not have been magical himself but he was certainly subjected to his fair share of dark magic so it's not all that surprising that it would have had some sort of magical outcome the man tortured on a Christus Island would have been stripped of everything his dignity his hope his sanity and eventually his very Soul he would have experienced the entire range of negative emotions associated with being a human making him the perfect breeding ground for dementa which of course represents all of those things hopelessness despair Etc the alternative to this theory is that the dementa wasn't birthed from the man but was instead created from the man and soul after years of enduring AC christ' torturous experiments the final nail in the coffin came when AC Christus cast a spell that ripped his soul out of his body ever heard of Vada kadavra we know that the killing curse leaves its victims soulless but what this suggests is that the soul still exists just outside of the physical body I happen to think that one poor sailor's tormented Soul had endured so much that when it was ejected from the body it manifested into a dark and Powerful depressive force a dementa the existence of a soul is a somewhat abstract concept making it quite difficult to Define however the generally accepted concept of a soul is that it's a kind of immaterial spiritual Essence an actuating cause of an individual's life it's what makes us tick and it certainly has no scientific explanation it's the soul that dementus feed on it's pieces of soul that Voldemort imparts into objects and it's the soul the aada kadavra purportedly rips out of the body the soul is what keeps our corporeal form Earthbound and that's why it plays a significant role in the conversation surrounding the wisting afterlife you can exist without your soul you know as long as your brain and heart are still working but you'll have no sense of self anymore no memory no anything there's no chance at all of recovery you'll just exist as an empty shell and your soul is gone forever lost Harry Potter very much perpetuates the idea that ultimately the physical body is merely a shell a vessel that merely transports the vital life force within and because the soul is immaterial it exists forever just like Dementors if we are to go by one of my theories we can reasonably conclude that dementes are either a parasitic dark forces created as a result of torture and other horrific conditions or B actual tainted Souls of individuals that have been subjected to copious amounts of dark magic But whichever Theory you subscribe to I still think that AC Christus was only responsible for creating one dementor the rest of them well that was up to the first one patient zero let me explain the dementes possess a powerful ability known as the kiss this kiss is capable of extracting the victim's soul from their very body leaving them as just a shell of their former selves conventional understanding of the kiss would suggest that once it's performed the soul is extracted and pushed into a sort of void nowhere to be found but I think that once the soul is ejected from the body it turns into the very creature that pulled it out in the first place a dementa the physical shell of the victim remains as just a physical shell but it's their soul that's transformed dementa are known for having a strong impact on the surrounding environment mainly characterized by chilling decrease in temperature diminish light enhanced darkness and instilling despair and hopelessness in nearby living beings Harry experiences this firsthand in the books an intense cold swept over them all Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest the cold went deeper than his skin it was inside his chest it was inside his very heart Harry's eyes rolled up into his head he couldn't see he was drowning in cold there was a rushing in his ears as though of water he was being dragged downward the Roaring growing louder the ders by virtue of being ders create the perfect environment for breeding and what better a creature to understand human despair than another human or at least what used to be another human how else could we expect a dark creature to understand the full range of human emotions the ministry of magic classifies dementes as non- beings also known as non-human spiritus Apparition a classification which refers to creatures formed out of human emotions and this sounds like a perfect description to me there's only one mention of men his breeding in the books and it occurs during an exchange between fudge and IM muggle prime minister in the Half Blood Prince even the weather was dismal all this chilly Mist in the middle of July it wasn't right it wasn't normal but said the prime minister with a sense of dawning horror didn't you tell me they're the creatures that drained hope and happiness out of people that's right and they're breeding that's what's causing all this mist and if we were to believe that dement's breeding creates Mist then their attack on Harry on the train would support support the idea that breeding just means attacking people or perhaps animals and sucking out more souls during his encounter with the ders on the train Harry experiences the following a thick white fog was swirling around him inside him but I'm going to leave it there for today what do you think do you agree with any of my theories do you have any theories of your own for how Dementors are created let me know down in the comment section below until next time remember it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

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Length: 12min 48sec (768 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 09 2024