What Happened to The Dementors?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 179465

Wrappedinharry: "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."

I believe Dementors, true to their name, live off madness and
suffering as well as any other negative emotion. 

I imagine that many Dementors were destroyed when Voldemort was
destroyed - the joy and relief and hope of so many wizards must have
been like poison to them. The rest must be weakened and less able to
attack - perhaps they're reduced to hurting the vulnerable, as they
probably used to do. 

Wrappedinhary: "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."

All the death, terror and hurt Voldemort and his Death Eaters caused
was spell enough. He didn't need another.

Jim Ferer