J. K. Rowling has revealed that the inspiration for Dementors came from her bout with severe depression prior to her phenomenal success.
Salad Czar ♫
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She described as an "absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.
Salad Czar ♫
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That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad."
Wow.
Godtess
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musso
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the dementors were really awful in those books