Specifically, I remember thinking that the idea that dementors were death was a bit cheesy. Taking a metaphor and making it corporeal seems to be a bit much to me.
I didn’t say it was new, I just said I didn’t like it. :-) And in my (limited) experience in literature, such direct personification (where death is, in essence, a character) is most often found in genres like surrealist of postmodern literature, which I don’t think Eliezer is going for.
Uh… That’s hardly a new) archetype).
For non-death examples, see every single god in Greek/Roman/Vedic mythology.
I didn’t say it was new, I just said I didn’t like it. :-) And in my (limited) experience in literature, such direct personification (where death is, in essence, a character) is most often found in genres like surrealist of postmodern literature, which I don’t think Eliezer is going for.