[HPforGrownups] Uh, oh, do we have a FILNT?

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 150729

Pippin:
 > The answer, according to the article is:
 >
 > "These evil creatures don't, by the way, breed but grow like a
 > fungus where there is decay. "
  > Back to now:
 > In HBP, Fudge tells the British PM that the mist is caused by
 > dementors breeding.  Hmm, so which is it?  Do we have a FLINT?  Or,
 > since the original wasn't canon, is it actually a FLINT?  Or did JKR
 > just change her mind?
 >
 > Can anyone justify the two statements?

Fungus "breed" by scattering their spores in the wind.  JKR could be telling 
us that the mist, as she sees it, is a direct result of the huge number of 
spores the dementors are releasing...  If they breed like fungus then this 
isn't a flint, IMO.  Seems kind of reasonable in fact...  :-)

PJ