GoF Ch 17- 20 post DH look - DRAGONS

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182017

> > Carol, who thinks that the MacFustys may harvest their dragons
like > cattle but can't imagine Charlie doing it
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Is that what FBAWTFT says, or does something imply it? I always 
> thougth of it as a preserve where the dragons were protected, but 
> where products might be used if a dragon died or needed to be put 
> down.  (I'm not sure I said it that way in my previous post.)
>
Carol responds:
All FBAWTFT says about the clan MacFusty is that they're traditionally
responsible for "the management of their native dragons." "Management"
might (or might not) include the managed slaughter of dragons who have
served their purpose (surplus males, maybe, if only a few are needed
for breeding, as with chickens and cattle, or older females past their
egg-laying years but still healthy). After all, someone has to provide
dragon hide and dragon blood and all those other supplies for Wizards
who need or want them. (Fred and George wear black dragon-leather
jackets to DD's funeral, so chances are that those jackets came from
Hebridean Blacks managed by the MacFustys. (I don't know how far the
Hebrides are from Hogwarts, but they're both in Scotland, right?) The
other possibilities are Hungarian Horntail or Norwegian Ridgeback, but
sinece those breeds are fiercer and their native lands more distant
than the Hebrides, the Hebridean Black seems a more likely source of
jacket leather.)

Carol, who knows that forest management includes "harvesting" trees
and suspects that "dragon management" includes "harvesting" dragons
(but  thinks that, whatever the case with the MacFustys, Charlie is
more of a researcher than a rancher)