Dragons ( was Innocent Victims)

[corinthum]

No: HPFGUIDX 41352


Jenny from Elfwood (I think, apologies if I'm misattributing quotes)
wrote: 
> > 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.  :)  
> 
> ... EDITED ....
> > 
> > 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?

And BBOY_MN wrote:
 
> 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. 

Dragon breeding may be outlawed, but there seem to be a decent amount
of wild ones wandering about (I assume the dragons Charlie works with
are wild).  The books never say that the dragons are specifically
killed for wands, dragon leather, etc.  I'd think it more likely that
the dragons die a natural death (do dragons die natural deaths? hmmm)
and then are used by wizards.  After all, if you want to hide the
existance of fifty-foot dragons from all the muggles out there,
creating a giant dragon burial area, or worse, just leaving the dead
dragon lying around, may not be the most intelligent idea.  Solution,
use the dragon.  Kill two birds with one stone: get rid of
incriminating dragon evidence, and gain several useful magical products.

-Corinth