GoF Ch 17- 20 post DH look - DRAGONS
zanooda2
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Mon Mar 10 02:47:07 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 182000
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> I don't think that Charlie and his friends train dragons for
> Gringotts. I think that the poor, abused dragon that we see in DH
> (kept confined and out of the light so long that it's nearly
> blind) is "trained," using a cruel variation on Pavlovian
> conditioning, by Goblins who teach it to associate the sound
> of the clankers with brutal mistreatment.
zanooda:
I absolutely agree, the dragon has terrible slashes across its
muzzle, and Harry notes that it was trained to fear hot swords -
sounds really cruel, I can't imagine anyone who loves animals to do
this, even if we are talking about ferocious beasts like dragons.
> Carol:
> How the Goblins obtained their dragon(s), I don't know. I
> can't imagine someone like Charlie and his friends selling
> a dragon to the Goblins if they knew the treatment it would receive.
zanooda:
I suppose they could have bought a dragon egg illegally, just like
Hagrid did - there must be a black market for this kind of thing.
Even if not an egg, they needed to acquire the dragon when it was
small enough - they wouldn't be able to get a full-grown dragon
inside Gringotts.
> Carol:
> I see Charlie's job as something like that of a Muggle
> researcher studying a dangerous endangered animal like, say, the
> Siberian tiger.
zanooda:
Exactly, Charlie's occupation was even described like this for the
first time in SS/PS: "Charlie's in Romania studying dragons". This
could mean of course that he was just continuing his COMC education
there, but anyway, I think you are right and research is definitely
part of Charlie's job.
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