Timeline for How intelligent / smart are Dementors?
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| Dec 31, 2020 at 20:13 | comment | added | Adamant | @Turion - They are not loyal. They went over to Voldemort's side because he promised to provide them with a fresh supply of victims—something that requires intelligence to understand. They also are capable of reasoning that a human is "losing their mind". I do find such responses revealing, though, because it shows how difficult it is for us humans to understand truly alien intelligences as such. Also, have you ever tried telling a dog to go to some specific alley that it has never seen before? I would not think you would have much luck. | |
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| May 22, 2016 at 23:34 | comment | added | svavil | @DarrelHoffman HP:MOR wants a word with you. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 18:43 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 22, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | I always thought the Dementors were one of the dumbest concepts in the HP universe. You have a prison full of the worst criminals in the wizarding world, and you choose to guard it with beings that can't (or won't) distinguish between their inmates and innocent bystanders, and whose loyalty can be easily bought by said inmates and turned against you? Surely there must be a better way... | |
| May 22, 2016 at 4:23 | comment | added | Turion | Thank you for this extensive research. But recognising people, being loyal and waiting in alleys for people are all things that dogs can do. If anything, I find that your cited sources show that dementors have intelligence below humans! | |
| May 22, 2016 at 1:32 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 22, 2016 at 0:04 | comment | added | Nate Watson | It could be that Dementors, like the Sphinx and the Giant Spiders, are of at least human intelligence, but are incapable of overcoming their basic nature. That would be why they're not considered beings. | |
| May 21, 2016 at 22:02 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | Valorum | I'm reasonably sure that the veelas didn't need to ask for inclusion since they're self-evidently of human level intelligence. Much the same goes for giants. Not including them would be liable to cause much offense. | |
| May 21, 2016 at 21:48 | vote | accept | RichS | ||
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| May 21, 2016 at 21:13 | history | answered | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |