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1Their level of intelligence is not very clearly stated. At times, eg at the end of PoA, people sort of run and fetch them and it makes me visualise a fairly regular guard. At other times, they seem to just loom and cause misery in a hardly sentient sort of way. An interesting question, though I think their main function at Azkaban is to preempt resistance by slowly destroying the spirit.– ThruGogCommented May 20, 2016 at 18:56
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Preempting resistance is actually the best explanation I've heard - they don't stop people from escaping like a regular guard would, they effectively prevent them from escaping because they have no hope that the escape would succeed. Regarding the beginning of your comment, though, they have a strange level of sentience but also require sustenance (apparently?) in the form of a soul/hope/happiness. But they also don't seem to be so keen on sucking the souls of the people who are already there. So they're like a "fairly regular guard", who guards sandwiches, and gets hungry, but doesn't eat.– JakeCommented May 20, 2016 at 19:06
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1Don't want to bother with the full answer, but they clearly "ate" good emotions of the prisoners non-stop based on what we see as far as their effects on ex-prisoners.– DVK-on-Ahch-ToCommented May 20, 2016 at 20:15
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