The subject of dementors...

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I'm new so I'm not even sure if this has been brought up before, but 
after reading (and re-reading several times each) books 1-5, I can't 
find a reference to where dementors come from...

Perhaps a dementor is created upon the administration of he "kiss."  
as in, the person who is kissed becomes a dementor once his soul is 
sucked out.  This leads to the obvious question, where did the first 
dementor come from?  Well, perhaps whomever was Voldemort's 
predecessor (since he is the worst in over a century, there must 
have been someone before him) and he became the first dementor upon 
his defeat.  Because I am sure that, like Voldemort, he had made 
special precautions to defeat death.  When he was defeated, he could 
not be killed, but his soul left him - creating the first dementor...

Just a thought... anybody out there have any other ideas?