OOP: Dementors (was : Re: OOP: Petunia and Azkaban)

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 66563

Hi All,

--- In HPforGrownups fire_fly107 wrote: 
> I too have been wondering where Dementors originatated. Could it 
> be that Dementors are not really 'beasts' at all, but some kind of 
> mutated wizard? Maybe they were created by VM during the first 
year, 
> and after he ws defeated were recruited by the ministry of magic.

We do know that "these evil creatures don't, by the way, breed but 
grow like a fungus where there is decay." JKR October 2000 
<http://www.canoe.ca/JamHarryPotter/oct25_potter-cp.html>

Cheers,

Dumbledad.

PS Thanks to Pippin in post 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/37415> for this 
fact.