About that egg........

[Adzuroth]

No: HPFGUIDX 148465

Adzuroth:
Yowzers!  I never would've thought my first post on here about 
accioing the dragon egg would spark such a reaction *hee, hee!*  
Anyway, here's a friendly little rebuttal for Eggplant's and 
A_svirn's replies:

Eggplant wrote:
you are on foot and have the egg under your
> > arm; you are in the stadium and standing right next to a very 
large
> > and very angry dragon. I don't think you life expectancy would be 
> very
> > long.

Adzuroth wrote:
True enough, but once you have the egg under your arm (or anywhere 
else in your possession) you've won the challenge.  It would then be 
up to the other wizards to get the dragon under control so the 
champion doesn't get hurt.  Also, if the dragoness regards the golden 
egg as one of her own, her motherly instinct would kick in and keep 
her from breathing fire on the champion which would endanger the egg 
(true, some dragons breathe fire on their eggs to warm them, but if 
this dragoness was sitting on her eggs then that is likely how she 
keeps them warm).  I don't have the GOF book in front of me, but 
wasn't time a factor in the score?  If it was then accioing the 
dragon egg would've let Harry beat the other champions on time easily.

a_svirn wrote:
But wasn't the dragoness *sitting* on her eggs? It's not likely that 
> accio would work under such circumstances. 
>

Adzuroth wrote:
Accio may or may not work on an egg a dragon is sitting on (after 
all, in OOTP when Fred and George accio'd their brooms they broke a 
heavy chain and crashed through doors to get to them) but all it 
would take is a little distraction (like running around everywhere) 
for the dragoness to raise herself up to breathe fire on Harry and he 
could use the spell.

Adzuroth