
This apparently served as a replacement for dragon milk. Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit stated that you were to feed a baby dragon a bucket of brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. However, the ability to fly was normally developed later, at around twelve months, and the dragon would not be fully mature until it was two years old, having developed both of these abilities, and ready to live on its own. The dragon's first fire breaths, usually accompanied by thick grey smoke, appeared when the dragon was around six months old. Newly born dragons were referred to as chicks. " Your dragon requires a lot of care during these first few months." - Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit ĭragon mothers breathed fire on their eggs to keep them warm. It was a possible, yet rare corporeal form of the Patronus Charm. Despite how dangerous they were, there were people who were trained to work with them, called dragon keepers, or dragonologists.Ī wizard or witch who traded and sold dragon eggs (which was an illegal activity) was referred to as a dragon dealer. The British Ministry of Magic classified them as XXXXX, known wizard killers that were impossible to train or domesticate. Their heartstring could be used as the core of a wand and were designated by Garrick Ollivander as one of the " Supreme Cores", which was a distinction shared by only two other beasts. Īble to fly and breathe fire through their nostrils and mouths, they were one of the most dangerous and hardest to conceal creatures in the wizarding world. Widely regarded as terrifying yet awe-inspiring, they could be found all over the world and were frequently referred to in Asian and medieval European folklore.


" Four fully grown, enormous, vicious-looking dragons were rearing on their hind legs inside an enclosure fenced with thick planks of wood, roaring and snorting torrents of fire were shooting into the dark sky from their open, fanged mouths, fifty feet above the ground on their outstretched necks." - The dragons used in the Triwizard Tournament ĭragons were giant winged, fire-breathing reptilian beasts.
