User:Subhashkatta07/Harry's fight--dementors vs voldemort

7 Key differences in real life: using Harry's analogy
1)     Of course a dementor is more than the state of mind. Everything goes dark unexpectedly when Dementor comes near you—Often in life troubles come in all shapes and sizes, further multiplied by the loss of loved ones, sometimes involving sudden accidents or a mean person coming in, and pushing you around, which makes life very dark. Nothing seem to hit through the dark, as if the darkness is impenetrable. Your whole focus is narrowed down and you can’t look anything past beyond it--much as a dementor appearing in your block. You often forget to realize that the next block still is well-lit.

2)     Dementors make you weak: Because they are the sole focus for you now, and you made them bigger, a dementor the size of 5-foot-tall creature floating above you has now become a thirty-foot monster hovering on you. Of course, your dementor is bigger than you, you feel the fight is unfair, and you look small with that very thought.

3)     Voldemort gives you a chance to fight back, Dementor doesn’t: When you pick up the wand, Voldemort forcibly makes you bow, but he asks you to deal your wand. Often unfair, but still there is some miraculous hope of victory entices in your brain, despite the intense fear for the enemy. You might think you can pull a rabbit out of the hat (although you might lose in the end with Voldemort). Harry never once thought he’d win against Voldemort when he faced him; it is Voldemort who chose fights for Harry and Harry had to comply one way or the other. Harry leveraged what he can on his side unknowingly, Priori-incantatem, the use of elder wand, his parents and Sirius offering protection, even Cedric Diggory fighting on his side. But, getting back to our point, Dementor doesn’t give you a chance to fight back, it hovers on you, going along with you, punishing you for no fault of your own, makes your thoughts unbearable, driving you into misery. There is no luck involved or a rabbit out of the hat to fight a dementor, remember Harry had no help in fighting when facing Dementors, he had to muster courage and happy thoughts on his own to fight back.

4)     Dementor can kiss only to release you of the pain: This is equivalent to taking your own life; it is not a sweet release, certainly not a natural one. Think of what I said for a moment—the release the dementor is offering you of the pain is the same pain that it caused in the first place. If merely a Dementor chose to hover off, the pain would be lifted. As I said, a dementor only tries to hone in on you, and tries to be stay with you as long as it possibly can, that is until you can scare it away with a Patronus.

5)     Dementor’s grip becomes stronger, the more you engage it: On the other hand, Voldemort’s grip on you marginally remains the same: If Harry were to go the same path as Voldemort and accumulated his own Horcruxes, nevermind how, only let’s say by doing terrible things he could become even more invincible than Voldemort. Harry could then face Voldemort without a shred of doubt, and his knees would never quiver in a duel. But, with a Dementor, Harry has nothing to learn from it. The only one skill that gets out of dementor in your path is hang on through the vice-grip tightening on you and muster a happy thought. Not just Harry, even Ron and Hermione can face a Dementor with a happy thought and only the ordinary skill of a conjuring a Patronus is required. Any good student at Hogwarts can do that if he concentrates long enough to learn a Patronus. It was proved very well when Harry teaches Patronuses in the Room of Requirement in the making of Dumbledore’s army. On the other hand to face Voldemort, the skills required are huge. Only Dumbledore has the skills to match Voldemort and Dumbledore’s knees don’t quiver in that fight.

6)     Dementor vs Harry, and Voldemort vs Harry, post-fight trauma: When Harry fought Voldemort, and walked away, his face is a sigh of relief that the fight ended. He could get up and go about doing things and helping his friends, and making sure they are okay and gathering them to home and having a butter-beer counting his losses. When Harry finished a fight with the Dementor, his face is still pale, and color returns only after a long time. It strained everything out of him and most often times he collapses only to shut-down the body and mind. It needs rebooting again, and Harry could only function after a good reboot.  Dementor’s effects on Dudley are remarkable—it left him wounded, scared, and made him quiver like squirrel for days to come. It unhinged him every bit. The effect lasted forever with Dudley and it changed Dudley into a pitiful creature.

7)     Of course, finally you have to factor in what Harry liked to face: When the seventh Horcrux inside Harry was killed, Harry went directly to the King’s cross station. Underneath Harry’s bench he saw a small creature, wounded, left out. Harry didn’t mind helping the wounded soul although Dumbledore told him to ignore it and get a move on and started walking. Harry’s intent of helping others didn’t change after a fight with Voldemort. Harry always tried to help a wounded soul, in the case of King’s cross it just happened to be Voldemort’s. Harry chose to lend a hand to Voldemort in this case. You have to remember that Harry never did that courtesy to a wounded Dementor.