Why did a Dementor try to take Harry's soul in the train?
In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" - when Harry and his friends were travelling to Hogwarts by train, the train stopped in between and Dementors were searching for Sirius Black. Why did one of the Dementors try to take Harry's soul?
Best Answer
They were never supposed to apply the Dementor's Kiss to any of the Hogwarts students. So that Dementor was acting out of line.
According to the Harry Potter wikia:
They seemed to be particularly attracted to Harry because, due to his miserable childhood and many bad memories, he was particularly vulnerable to their influence.
In other words, the Dementor saw a very tasty morsel, and its gluttony was stronger than its discipline.
From a storytelling point of view, this scene serves to show us a Dementor, and shows that they cannot be trusted to follow their orders to not harm the students.
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In the 3rd book the dementors come onto the train to see if anyone is concealing Voldemort. They only attack harry. At the time it was thought that this was because harry had uh worse things in his past then most others. BUT, because harry had a part of Voldemort soul in him then the dementors were doing their job.Why were the Dementors so obsessed with Harry?
A theory posted on Reddit suggests Dementors were drawn to Harry because they could sense the piece of Voldemort's soul living in him. Harry is an \u201caccidental horcrux\u201d, created when the killing curse casted by Voldemort backfired, fragmented his soul, and sent a piece of it to Harry's body.Why Dementors Were So Interested in Harry - Harry Potter Theory
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Answer 2
The dementor was never trying to give harry the kiss. the same thing happened to harry as happened to everyone else: he relived his bad memories and felt cold. This was not an attempt to kiss harry. the dementors were only focused on harry because he had such sad memories, and dementors feed off of them
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