dragões are giant winged, fire-breathing reptiles. Widely regarded as terrifying yet awe-inspiring, they can be found all over the world and are frequently referred to in Asian and medieval European folklore. Able to fly and breathe fogo through their nostrils, they are one of the most dangerous and hardest to conceal creatures in the wizarding world. The Ministry of Magic classifies them as XXXXX, most dangerous, or known wizard killers. Despite how dangerous they are, there are people who are trained to work with them, called dragon keepers, or dragonologists. A wizard who illegally trades and sells dragões is referred to as a dragon dealer. Members of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures who kill dragões are called Dragon Killers.
Dragon mothers breathe fogo on their eggs to keep them warm. The dragon's first fogo breaths, usually accompanied por thick grey smoke, appear when the dragon is around six months old. However, the ability to fly is normally developed later, at around twelve months, and the dragon will not be fully mature until it is two years old and ready to live on its own. Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit states that you are to feed a baby dragon a bucket of conhaque mixed with chicken blood every half hour.
There is no officially sanctioned breeding of dragons, as dragon breeding was outlawed por the Warlocks' Convention of 1709. However, they have been known to interbreed, producing rare hybrids. Below is a list of the ten known pure-bred breeds of dragões according to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:
Antipodean Opaleye
Chinese Fireball (Known as "Lion Dragon")
Common Welsh Green (the native dragon for Great Britain)
Hebridean Black
Hungarian Horntail (Considered to be the most dangerous dragon ever)
Norwegian Ridgeback
Peruvian Vipertooth (the venomous dragon)
Romanian Longhorn
Swedish Short-Snout
Ukrainian Ironbelly (The largest dragon species ever recorded)
There are two other breeds, according to Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit. It is unknown if these are pure-bred dragons, hybrids or, as the book is out-dated, these dragões may have become extinct due to illegal dragon huntings.
These are the two dragons:
Catalonian Fireball
Portuguese Long-Snout
Dragon mothers breathe fogo on their eggs to keep them warm. The dragon's first fogo breaths, usually accompanied por thick grey smoke, appear when the dragon is around six months old. However, the ability to fly is normally developed later, at around twelve months, and the dragon will not be fully mature until it is two years old and ready to live on its own. Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit states that you are to feed a baby dragon a bucket of conhaque mixed with chicken blood every half hour.
There is no officially sanctioned breeding of dragons, as dragon breeding was outlawed por the Warlocks' Convention of 1709. However, they have been known to interbreed, producing rare hybrids. Below is a list of the ten known pure-bred breeds of dragões according to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:
Antipodean Opaleye
Chinese Fireball (Known as "Lion Dragon")
Common Welsh Green (the native dragon for Great Britain)
Hebridean Black
Hungarian Horntail (Considered to be the most dangerous dragon ever)
Norwegian Ridgeback
Peruvian Vipertooth (the venomous dragon)
Romanian Longhorn
Swedish Short-Snout
Ukrainian Ironbelly (The largest dragon species ever recorded)
There are two other breeds, according to Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit. It is unknown if these are pure-bred dragons, hybrids or, as the book is out-dated, these dragões may have become extinct due to illegal dragon huntings.
These are the two dragons:
Catalonian Fireball
Portuguese Long-Snout
