GoF Ch 17- 20 post DH look - DRAGONS

zanooda2 zanooda2 at yahoo.com
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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