Dementors and Horcruxes

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 144877

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lolita_ns" <lolita_ns at y...> 
wrote:

> But the 
> problem, as I see it, is how to make Dementors obey you? Or at least, 
> how to tell them that you want them to suck the pieces of soul hidden 
> in Horcruxes (if the Horcrux is said to be the *object* in which sb 
> has hidden part of their soul) without having them trying to do it to 
> *you* instead? Do you make a pact with them of some kind - is that 
> how the MoM controlled them up to a cetrain point? 

Allie:

I have wondered if they can be killed.  The Patronus can drive them 
away, but it doesn't destroy them.  Because in theory, if they can't be 
destroyed and they CAN breed, in a short time the entire planet would 
be overrun by dementors!  (Unless their lifespan is ultrashort, but I 
have no reason to think it is.)