Dragon (Harry Potter)

**Dragons** were giant winged, fire-breathing reptilian beasts. 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.Template:Creature
Able 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. 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***.
The British Ministry of Magic ***classified*** them as XXXXX, known wizard killers that were impossible to train or domesticate. Despite how dangerous they were, there were people who were trained to work with them, called dragon keepers, or ***dragonologists***.
A wizard or witch who traded and sold dragon eggs (which was an illegal activity) was referred to as a ***dragon dealer***.

## History

In 1992, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger arrived just in time to see a baby ***Norwegian Ridgeback*** emerge from its egg. The baby dragon sneezed some sparks and almost bit Hagrid (who was delighted). The first signs of hatching must have begun by breakfast time, since it was then that Harry, Ron, and Hermione received a note from Hagrid informing them of it. They went to his hut right after their morning Herbology class.

## Dragons in the wizarding world

> It's hard to stop Muggles noticing us if we're keeping dragons in the back garden — anyway, you can't tame dragons, it's dangerous.
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> Dragons and their nature, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Draco Malfoy's first name came from the constellation The Dragon ("Draco" in Latin). The motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was *Draco dormiens numquam titillandus*; Latin for *Never tickle a sleeping dragon*.
The Hogwarts gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid, loved and adored dragons, briefly owning a ***Norwegian Ridgeback*** named Norbert, who turned out to be a female and was subsequently renamed Norberta. In 1993, the ***Minister for Magic***, Cornelius Fudge, suggested placing dragons to guard the school, after being compelled to remove the ***Dementors***, something that Professor Dumbledore thought Hagrid would be very happy with.

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## Known breeds

> There was a silvery blue one with long, pointed horns, snapping and snarling at the wizards on the ground, a smooth-scaled green one, which was writhing and stamping with all its might, a red one with an odd fringe of fine gold spikes around its face, which was shooting mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air, and a gigantic black one, more lizard-like than the others, which was nearest to to them.
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> Physical descriptions of different breeds, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

There was no officially sanctioned breeding of dragons, as dragon breeding was outlawed by the ***Warlocks' Convention of 1709***. However, they had been known to interbreed, producing rare hybrids. Below is a list of the ten known pure-bred breeds of dragons according to the fifty-second edition of Template:FB:

The existence of these two dragons were only shown on a page of notes concerning the book *Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit*.

## Appearances

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## Notes and references

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