The subject of dementors...

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 83481

--- "AlLeY kAt" <adelaney> wrote: (snipped)
> I can't find a reference to where dementors come from...
> This leads to the obvious question, where did the first 
> dementor come from?  ...
> Just a thought... anybody out there have any other ideas?

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them" gives some clues to the 
origin of Dementors if you read between the lines. (No, I don't mean 
Ron's comments)

Under the Acromantula, it says that it "... is believed to be wizard-
bred, possibly intended to guard wizard dwellings or treasure, as is 
often the case with magically created monsters." 
Then in the foot note, it says, "Beasts capable of human speech are 
rarely self-taught; ... The Ban on Experimental Breeding did not come 
into effect until this century, ...

So this suggests dementors, intellegent and understanding spoken 
directions (otherwise Fudge couldn't instruct them), would have been 
wizard-bred. 


But bred from what? Look at the Lethifold entry. 
It is a cloak-like tropical creature that glides along the ground at 
night. It kills by clamping itself over its victom's mouth so that he 
can't breath. It prefers victoms asleep in bed. The only known 
defence against a Lethifold is a Patronus Charm while thinking happy 
thoughts. The 1st Lethifold was identified in the late 1700s.

It has similarities to the Dementor if crossed with a humanoid 
(vampire, maybe?). One main magical difference is the hopelessness 
and one's worst memories being relived. 

The breeding Ban suggests dementors were bred last century. - or 
imported from countries where, like flying carpet rules, the law is 
not the same as the UK Wizard World. Lethifolds, being tropical 
creatures, may have been developed as recently as Grindelwald or his 
predecessor's time.    ~aussie~