Can dementors actually be killed?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 182397

 
> Carol responds:
> 
> I started to reply earlier, but Yahoo!mort ate my post (it has
> Dementorish tendencies <eg>), so I'll try again.

Potioncat:
YahooMort did seem to have a lot of fun on April Fools' Day.

>Carol: 
> Since Dementors are not and have never been human (they're much
> taller, have featureless faces with only a gaping hole for a mouth,
> create a sense of cold and despair by their mere presence, and don't
> require food in a normal sense--neither emotions nor souls have
> substance, Horcruxes or no Horcruxes), I don't think that they can 
be
> born or die in a normal sense.

Potioncat:
I wonder what happened to them after LV's real downfall. That is, 
what did the MoM do about them and how did they go about it? I 
wouldn't think they'd be recruited for Azkaban again. 

Going off in search of left over Easter chocolate myself. That is, if 
such a thing exists.