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Yeah, I was wondering about this, also. Does Harry have to be physically present to destroy the dementors in Azkaban?
Great point!
However, in TSPE arc, when Harry had one of his emotional "I'll destroy all dementors right now" episodes after hearing just how Bella was used by Voldemort, he had to come up fast with rational reasons not to do it. And one reason was that it would not be maximally efficient to destroy the dementors while standing in a corridor in Azkaban, and it would be better to go himself to the central pit where they lived.
So it should be much harder yet to destroy them from Hogwarts. Maybe not impossible, though. One at a time?
But Dumbledore would immediately know that it was Harry doing it, and would stop him after only a few were destroyed, unless he managed to destroy them all in one go. And Harry's internal monologue in the same instance I referred to indicates that doing so would take so much life-energy it would kill Harry.
I guess the question is whether it's Harry's location that matters or the location of his patronus.
Maybe what matters isn't the proximity of the caster but of the patronus itself. Though Harry might still not be able to send his 2.0 on a search&destroy mission while staying at Hogwarts.
There seems to be a need for constant energy transfer into the patronus, and I doubt this transfusion line can go through hyperspace.