GoF Ch 17- 20 post DH look - DRAGONS

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182022

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> 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. 


Fred and George seem to have leather jackets for every occasion :-) - 
at the end of OotP they are wearing dragon hide jackets of lurid 
green color (Welsh green?). Bill wore boots of dragon hide in GoF, 
color unknown. It seems that dragon hide clothes and shoes are 
considered to be cool, but they are expensive. 

Dragon hide is also used for protection - dragon hide protective 
gloves are on the list of things required at Hogwarts, and students 
are mentioned wearing them in Herbology and Potions in HBP. They 
might need the gloves for COMC as well (skrewts :-)), but I can't 
remember if they ever wore them in Hagrid's class. Hagrid also 
brought a roll of dragon skin as the third present to the giants, 
which means that it is considered very valuable.

I was trying to recall where else in the books dragon hide is 
mentioned, but only "powdered dragon claw" comes to mind somehow - 
Ron believed it was supposed to make you smarter :-). But I think 
that wizards definitely eat dragons, remember this woman in SS/PS 
talking about dragon liver prices? Hagrid used a dragon steak to heal 
his bruises in OotP (and iirc, it was greenish in color - yuck), but 
I don't believe it was sold for this purpose :-).


zanooda, who enjoys remembering small things like that without any 
real purpose ...