Dragons ( was Innocent Victims)

[bboy_mn]

No: HPFGUIDX 41306

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jenny" <woman22980 at t...> wrote:
> > Remember in SS/PS:
Comments from Jenny; Responses from bboy_mn
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> Is it necessary to kill the unicorn to get a couple of hairs?  

BBOY_MN: No, somewhere in one of the books Ollivander makes a comment
about almost being kicked by a unicorn as he was pucking out one of
the tail hairs.


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>(How_do_ the cram all that stuff into a tiny little stick of wood???), 

BBOY_MN: With magic, of course.
I've always wonder how they got the cores inside the wands too, but
the only explaination I can come up with is magic.

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> 
> I _do_ feel sorry for those poor dragons that have to 
> be killed to get the "dragon heartstring" for wands though.  
> I don't imagine there's much other way to get heartstrings 
> from dragons other than to butcher the poor beasts.
>
> Hopefully when this is done they use the _whole_ dragon, 
> like the whole cow is used.  :)  

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> I do find it a little ironic that dragons are supposed to 
> be endangered, yet the wizards use their parts all the time.  
> It must be that some are more common than others, or they 
> _are_ raised domestically for the WW purposes. I wonder if 
> they sell dragon steaks at fancy WW resturants?
> 
> Jenny from Elfwood

BBOY_MN: I've always been curious about dragons too. You see dragon
products every where, but at the same time dragon breeding has been
outlawed. It think it's been outlawed because it's just too hard to
hide a dragon in the modern world. But given the number of dragon
products, they must be getting the material from some where. 

One possibility is that dragon breeding is only outlawed in Europe.
Maybe all the new dragon products are imported from China. 

On the other hand, Harry's dragon (Tri-Wiz tournement) was 50 feet
tall; as tall or taller than a 5 story building. I'm pretty sure that
it was 50 ft tall, not 50 ft long. Given that, how many cows does it
take to equal one dragon? One 50 foot dragon represents a lot of hide,
and probably has a heart the size of a Volkswagen, so one heart can
make a lot of wands.

Just some dragon thoughts.

BBOY_MN