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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5382366" data-attributes="member: 18280">Sadly, the Eric's Grandmother rule prevents me from providing a graphic...... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />I'm not sure; the rules of JKR's universe seem very obscure and self-contradictory to me.  AFAICT, Conan could beat a dementor by thinking happy thoughts at it; i.e., by simply refusing to give in.Rather like Happy in the wardrobe, which was used as the lesser example of the dementor for practicing dispelling such creatures.I actually think Harry Potter is a poor example to use, because AFAICT the HP universe is pretty poorly thought out.  Apart from the events that happen within the novels, it is difficult to say what could or could not happen.The one thing we can say is that the Wizarding world seems to be concealed from the Muggles, and it is the Muggles who are in charge.  This implies rather that the Wizarding world knows that potential Conans are out there, somewhere, ready to spank them if need be.  It is only insane wizards, like Voldemort, who are willing to chance it.  And even their attacks on Muggles, in the novels, were not open and obviously the results of magic.  Heck, the Wizarding world devotes quite a bit of its resources in avoiding the attention of potential Conans....er, Muggles.For all the big talk about how overwhelmingly powerful HP magic is, the reality may well be that much of it works only on other wizards.RC</blockquote>

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