GoF Ch 17- 20 post DH look - DRAGONS

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181998

> Carol:
I see Charlie's job as something like that of a Muggle
> researcher studying a dangerous endangered animal like, say, the
> Siberian tiger. They would want to provide ideal breeding and living
> conditions for the dragons, keep the population healthy, study their
> habits, and so on. Occasionally, as with Norbert in SS/PS or the TWT
> in GoF, they'd be called upon to transport dragons, but that can
> hardly be their primary job. (They might also supply dragon skin,
> dragon blood, and dragon heartstring to merchants and manufacturers,
> but I don't want to think about that part.)

zgirnius:
On a positive note, perhaps the magical ingredients/substances to 
which you refer, may be obtained from a dead, dying, or severely 
injured dragon which is not able to live on its own anymore. (As 
Sluggie could still harvest the venom of the recently deceased 
Acromantula, Aragog). The Siberian tiger RL analogy brings up another 
function Charlie and Co. may have - they may act analogously to 
National Park rangers who prevent poachers from irresponsibly killing 
off the endangered animals for a quick Galleon to be made off selling 
the parts to shady dealers.