[the_old_crowd] Dragonicity

[Charme]

Kneasy uttered:

In folklore dragons are mostly described as having a maiden fixation
(Why? Is it an excuse for the king - it's inevitably his daughter - to
get a bit of peace at breakfast? And are they eaten as crudites or
flambe [please excuse lack of acutes]? The latter would be my advice -
all the pictures I've seen depict these slightly podgy damsels ["Does
my bum look big in this?" - "Yes."] as having tresses four feet long.
Grave danger of hair balls for the unwary consumer.)

They're depicted as having a gold complex too. Sort of mythological
magpies for shiny bits and pieces.

So what's the likelihood of further dragon-related happenings in HP?
Pretty good, I'd say. The background is already in place and so are a
few of the cast.

Charme:

Ah, Kneasy, how I have missed your posts. However, I am compelled to respond 
to this one :)

You know that thingy (don't you just love that word: so unrefined, yet so 
handy in times of descriptive need) about your boy DD and, I think, Nicolas 
Flamel?  The one about discovering the 12th use of dragon's blood? I think 
that's probably more how dragons enter the soiree - dragon's blood 
mythically could make one stronger, braver, understand the language of birds 
(Norse/Siegfried),  heal and protect from disease. Or maybe a more subtle 
path is necessary here, such as a correlation or relation to the Norse word 
"draugr" thought to be related to the word we now know as "dragon."  Draugrs 
were thought to live in the graves of dead Vikings, which is interesting 
since one of the myths associated with dragons is that they were purported 
to guard the graves of kings and possibly lends something to the historical 
belief dragons were drawn to collect gold and trinkets (e.g., king's 
treasures.)

There's also the herbal/botanical "dragon's blood" which has been reputed to 
have been used in magic and alchemy. Racier uses included as an aphrodisia 
and as well as an impotency cure (hey now, don't shoot the messenger, 
gentlemen) and then in some less erotic ways: relieve pain, heal, resist 
disease and calm distress. It's made it's way into religion and culture as 
well, since in India dragon's blood resin is sometimes used during rituals 
to cleanse an area of negative spirits or energy and some Catholic churches 
add this to their frankincense mixture to deepen smoke and also for the 
resin's disinfectant properties.

Yep, all you really didn't want to know about dragons, dragon's blood and 
more, isn't it? :) I know, I know.... you'll thank me later... ;)

Charme