Dementor. The guard of …

Silently he comes near, without your notice he’ll do so much harm that no creature in your worst nightmares can do to you.

Dementor.

I have seen the dementor, a real life dementor. He is as horrific as those seen in the movie Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaaban. But unlike the dementors in the movie, who suck every last bit of happy memory every good feeling, this dementor of mine sucks every ounce of confidence, every bit of belief you have in yourself that you can achieve what you aim for. The faith that makes you do all that effort you do to reach where you wanted. Imagine you are all geared up to take that first small step of your long journey and then he comes to say that’s not all possible. “You can not do it this way. That way it can be done but then there are lot more problems. Why not do it the easiest way though it’s not all that elegant (?). In fact the idea has some inherent contradictions that make it far from being worth called an idea. You can never make it.”

He wears spectacles and is composed of bones and only bones. In fact its bones only covered with skin. You can actually call him a moving alive hangar on which somebody has hung some clothes. So thin and light that if you sneeze he would be blown off. In fact we tried a lot many times to do that. Still no success. Someday we will.

He calls himself Ash. I don’t know why! Maybe he’s a great fan of Aishwarya Rai that he calls himself with her pet name “Ash”. Or is he motivated by the mythological bird phoenix which rises from its own ashes. Why phoenix? Because when people try to reduce him to ashes by turning a blind eye to him, ignoring him he comes back again and again and again; and with all the more force.

He’s one guy to be dreaded most of times but many a times he’s a good pal for all the jokes he cracks. But alas they too …