What Happened to The Dementors?

[Lesley McKenna]

No: HPFGUIDX 179439

I was just wondering hwether anybody had any theories about the Dementors.
   
  I am sure they did not just disappear after the fall of LV and as they were breeding all the way through HBP, there must be thousands of the horrors out there now.
   
  They still have to feed by leeching all the happiness out of people, so presumably, there would still be Dementor attacks. Obviously, they are no longer under the control of the ministry (exactly how do you control a Dementor?) and no longer have gainful employment guarding Azkaban.
   
  I presume their payment took the form of being able to live off the emotions of the poor prisoners, although from everything we've heard of Azkaban, that happenes in fairly short order as most people end up mad very quickly.
   
  So unless Azkaban was always getting lots and lots of new prisoners, I don't see how they remained content for as long as they did. And I also don't think that the guards of Azkaban could have been ALL of the Dementors, even before they started breeding.
   
  Perhaps, some sort of spell had to be cast before they could start breeding and LV would have been only too happy to cast such a spell.
   
  I'll be interested to hear any theories that may be out there.
   
  wrappedinharry.