The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

How much is a dragon worth?

Although Erwin didn't know, he could make an estimate.

Dragon livers are known to sell for sixteen Sickles an ounce at Diagon Alley Drugstores.The weight of an adult dragon is set at 20.00 tons, and the weight of the liver is calculated as one-fiftieth, which is 120 kilograms.Herb stores probably don’t sell fresh animal organs, so the dry weight of 230 kilograms of dragon liver is calculated at 720%, which is 980 kilograms, which is approximately equal to [-] three ounces, and the price is [-] five Sikels. Thousand [-] three Galleons.

This is just dragon liver.

In other words, even if Norber is purely raised as an economic animal, he will not lose money, and even make a lot of money.

Hermione never gave up her idea of ​​persuading Hagrid to give up raising dragons. She mentioned that Ron had said that his eldest brother Charlie Weasley raised dragons in Romania.

"We can take the initiative to contact him and send Noble to him..."

Hagrid lacked interest in this, and Erwin patted Ron on the shoulder, "I suggest that you make becoming your eldest brother's colleague as the ultimate goal of studying at Hogwarts," he said seriously: " That should be the most promising job for you."

Ron: ? ? ?

Hermione's words reminded Erwin that he would not say that he would treat Norbert as an economic animal now, but how to control it when it grows up is indeed a problem that needs to be considered, and it is necessary to cultivate its obedience from now on .

With Norber's current brain capacity, its IQ should be quite worrying, and it can only use the most basic reward and punishment mechanism.

A few days later, Hagrid suddenly told Erwin, "Professor Dumbledore needs my help to deliver a letter. I won't be back until about three days later. Norbert will leave it to you. Don't starve it." road.

The opportunity is here.

Erwin was left alone in the camp, and Norbert was caged, looking agitated, writhing back and forth, rattling the metal cage.

As Erwin approached, it immediately showed its fangs in a demonstrative manner, and its tawny vertical pupils showed a fierce light.

What an unfamiliar dragon cub.

Erwin had a test tube in his hand. Standing not far from the cage, he pulled the stopper.

The breath of the Fountain of Power dissipated, and Noble smelled it, and it suddenly seemed to be crazy, roaring and desperately trying to get out of the cage.

"Ha, you've tasted this stuff and liked it, right?" Erwin sneered.

With a thought in his mind, the bolt on the cage door was pulled out. The freed Norbert was stunned for a moment, and then rushed towards Erwin like a whirlwind, which was completely a predatory posture.

But then it was pressed to the ground by a huge force.

The dragon cub howled and flapped its limbs, but its body seemed to be firmly nailed to the ground by an invisible spear, completely unable to move.It wanted to spray out flames, but immediately another invisible spear penetrated its upper jaw, making it unable to even open its mouth, and could only spray sparks from its nostrils.

Erwin squatted down and sent the mouth of the test tube to the tip of Noble's nose. It could smell the strong breath of the Fountain of Power, but it couldn't take a step forward, and couldn't even lick it. It could only whine.

It can only be smelled but not eaten, which is a huge mental torment for an animal with an immature mind.

After half an hour like this, Erwin stepped back a little bit, releasing the huge force exerted on Norbert.

It only took half a second for the young dragon to go from wilted to full of vigor, and it rushed towards Erwin again, but was immediately pressed to the ground again, and fell into a daze.

"You should learn to respect the strong." Erwin said gently.

Noble frantically spewed sparks from his nostrils.

After another half an hour, Norber was suddenly able to act again. Without any hesitation, he attacked Erwin and was imprisoned again. He stared at the human in front of him, his eyes full of hatred.

The dragon is worthy of being a dragon. That guy Saby completely obeyed him after giving it a round like this, but Norbert is quite rebellious, not only because of his nature or because of his low IQ.

Erwin is not in a hurry, it is not difficult for him to suppress a baby dragon that has just hatched at such a close distance, and he has plenty of time.

The trio came by in the evening, "I'm helping Norbert work out," Erwin told them.

Although it felt a bit strange, even Hermione didn't delve into it. They had a lot of homework to do near the end of the term, so they couldn't stay here for too long.

"We have to be more careful, and we need to reduce the number of times we come here in the future," Hermione said. "Malfoy has reported many times that he saw us sneaking out of the castle."

Throughout the whole night, Norber refused to admit defeat. Every time he was free for a short time, he tried his best to attack the hateful human boy in front of him, but gradually, tiredness and hunger entangled his body, and his movements towards Erwin became more and more serious. I'm getting weaker and weaker.

It began to whimper. In the past, it had already eaten two good meals at this time and was rolling comfortably in the cage. Now it was not only very hungry, but the hateful humans did not allow it to sleep.

Erwin had boiled thick chicken soup over a campfire in advance, and added the tube of mighty spring into it. Now that the chicken soup had congealed into jelly, he picked a piece and brought it to Norbert's mouth.

"Want to eat?"

Norbert whimpered pitifully.

Erwin relieved the force exerted on the young dragon again, and Noble suddenly burst up, opening his mouth to bite—not to the piece of jelly, but to Erwin's hand.

"boom!"

A huge force was generated suddenly, the body of the young dragon was knocked into the air, and rolled two or three times on the ground. Norbert let out a cry of pain, and then was pierced by the invisible spear of gravity again and nailed to the ground.

This time its shackles were never lifted again, until after a day and a night, Noble, who hadn’t eaten or drank, was dizzy and weak, even his consciousness was a little blurred.

Erwin walked up to it and dropped a piece of aspic in front of it, the same piece from before, covered with dirt and broken leaves.

Noble found that he could move again. He immediately opened his mouth, stretched out his tongue, and swallowed the jelly whole. Then another piece of jelly was presented to him, and he ate it without hesitation.

The special substances in the aspic made it regain some strength, and Noble stood up tremblingly, looking at the human beings close at hand, with a trace of fear in his eyes.

It dared not attack again.

"You still want to eat?" Erwin raised his eyebrows.

Norbert cried out timidly.

Piece by piece, Erwin fed the pot of jelly to the young dragon. After Norbert had eaten and drank enough, he reached out his hand and wanted to touch the young dragon's head, but there were several poisonous thorns growing on it. , so he changed sides halfway and scratched Noble's chin.

The wyrmling accepted the caress.

As soon as Erwin pushed it down hard, and then began to rub its stomach, Noble's body stiffened for a moment, but he was still obedient and did not dare to resist.

Very good, if it can show the most fragile abdomen, it means that it has been initially domesticated.

When Hagrid came back, he was surprised to find that Norbert had become a good baby. He didn't quarrel, didn't make noise, didn't tear down the house, and gave him hugs and kisses. It seems a little too intimate.

This made Hagrid, who was an orthodox "mother", feel a little sour in his heart.

There is no way, he has work to do, it is impossible to stay with Noble all the time.

"Oh, yes, Hagrid," Erwin said suddenly, "I found out that Norbert is actually a girl."

Male dragons and female dragons have different physical structures. Although it was not obvious when the baby dragon was born, now that Noble has become a good baby, it is naturally easy to determine its gender.

"Girls?" Hagrid was taken aback, he hadn't thought about this possibility.

However, it seems that there is no difference between whether Nuo Bo is male or female, that is, the name is not suitable, "Since she is a little girl, she can no longer be called Nuo Bo..."

"Change the name to Onyxia." Erwin immediately put forward his opinion.

"This name is too long and a mouthful." Hagrid shook his head and vetoed. "And the little guy should be used to the name Norbert, so he might as well add an extra syllable to it and call it Norbeta."

Erwin agreed, and Hagrid must have the priority naming rights.

The domestication of Nobeta is still going on, and it is not enough to just make him obey out of fear, and now is the second step.Erwin fed Norberta well every day, but strictly controlled the feeding of the Fountain of Power. Only after Norberta fulfilled some of his requirements would he give a piece of jelly that was filled with the Fountain of Power. Rewards, such as shaking hands, rolling, and scratching belly, Norbeta learned quickly.

Let obedience become its habit, and when it no longer needs rewards to complete the instructions, it means that domestication has been completely completed.

So Nobeta obediently became Erwin's research subject, including but not limited to being measured for body length and wingspan every day, being opened to study dragon teeth and fire-breathing glands, drawing blood, and removing some scales for material testing , minus one or two poisonous thorns to test the toxicity, even the chrysanthemum and the daily feces must be observed.

Erwin recorded the changes in the body data of the young dragon every day, and found that the fountain of power has greatly promoted its growth. Maintaining a regular intake every day not only strengthened Nobetta's physique, but also increased his magic power. The most intuitive manifestation of its steady growth is its dragon breath, which can now turn the area within three meters in front of it into a sea of ​​flames.

This made Erwin a little unbalanced. Why can I only have more temporary magic power when I drink the Fountain of Power?Ever since he knew that the magical power of most wizards can only grow with age, Erwin has always had a faint worry. He is afraid that although he has a rational mind and sufficient ambition, he will be shackles due to insufficient magical power.

It seems that the most important factor affecting the upper limit of a wizard's magic power is talent.

Flitwick said that Erwin already possessed fifth-grade magic power, but this was the result of his uninterrupted training for nearly ten years, and it did not prove how high his upper limit of magic power was.

And now, nearly a year has passed, Harry and the others can use magic that was unimaginable a year ago, but Erwin feels that his magic level has not improved much.If I can visualize it with data, it is that Harry's magic power is [-], and Erwin's is [-], but now they have added [-] points, which is almost doubled for Harry, and Erwin's is [-]. There is almost no improvement.

The side effects are just too distressing.

Erwin realized that if this was the case in the future, then it might be a luxury for him to reach Flitwick's level as an adult, and he couldn't keep drinking the fountain of power to cast spells?

This is really unacceptable to him.

If only I were a dragon, he couldn't help thinking.