Dragons ( was Innocent Victims)/ Welsh-eries

[hsowaw2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 41354

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "corinthum" <kkearney at s...> wrote: <Edited>
> 
> Jenny from Elfwood (I think, apologies if I'm misattributing quotes)
> wrote: 

> > > 
> > > 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. 
> > 

> 
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.
> 

I think some very valid points are being raised here. In FBAWTFT, it 
states that the following parts of a Dragon, are usede in wizardry: 
the hide, blood, heart, liver, and horn (also in the case of the 
Chinese Fireball the egg shell is used).

I find it hard to believe that wizards actually ~kill~ the Dragons 
for the purpose of harvesting, and probably only actually kill any 
magical creature as a last resort. 

To give an example, in the late nineteenth century dangerously 
increasing numbers of Peruvian Vipertooths, incidently the smallest 
breed at just 15 feet in length, forced the the International 
Confederation of Wizards to send in extermination squads, 
to 'reduce', not to kill off. This breed of Dragon has 'a liking for 
humans', so if the ICW wanted a reason to kill the dragons, that 
would be it, and they would harvest their crop. Not so.

Another example, is the first Task of the TC. The Champions are told 
that they mustn't harm the eggs, OR the Dragons. Had they merely been 
breeding to harvest materials, it wouldn't have mattered what they 
did to the full grown specimens.
(Of course, one could argue that a Baby can not be raised without a 
Mother. At that, I would point out that Norbert had ~Hagrid~ as a 
mother.)

I think a likely theory, is that Dragon Reservations have a place 
storage room, where, when a Dragon passes away, the useful parts are 
kept. I make no claims to know how long Drangon live for, but, I'm 
guessing quite a while. Some might say that, 'Surely, supplies would 
run low...', ~I~ say, how many pairs of gloves can be made out of one 
six tonne Dragon? My guess would be 'Quite a few!'


To change the subject slightly, I was wondering about today, and was 
struck by a random thought. 
The word 'Pensieve' is presumably meant to help us associate it with 
the word pensive, yes? Maybe, but What intrigued me, was that the 
word 'Pen', in the Welsh language, means 'Head', translated ~this~ 
way, a Pensieve literally means a 'Headsieve'. Fairly accurate 
description, don't you think?
Also, I was just wondering, why JK Rowling would make the native 
Dragon of Wales green, and the 'other' British Dragon black. 
Arthurian folklore has the obvious one as being Red, and 
the 'English' Dragon is White. Go figure.
Any thoughts?