The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

How much is a dragon worth?

Although Erwin doesn't know clearly, he can make an estimate.

It is known that the price of dragon liver in the Diagon Alley pharmacy is sixteen ounces per ounce. The weight of an adult dragon is set to thirty tons, and the weight of liver is calculated as one-fiftieth, which is 600 kilograms. Medicinal Materials Store

Fresh animal organs should not be sold, so the dry weight of 600 kilograms of dragon liver is 20%, which is 120 kilograms, approximately equal to 4,233 ounces, and the price is 67,000

Seven hundred and twenty-five sickles, which amounts to three thousand nine hundred and eighty-three galleons.

This is just dragon liver.

In other words, even if you raise Norbert purely as an economic animal, you will not lose money, and you can even make a lot of money.

Hermione never gave up trying to persuade Hagrid to give up the idea of ​​raising dragons. She mentioned that Ron had said that his eldest brother, Charlie Weasley, was raising dragons in Romania.

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

Hagrid showed little interest in this, while Erwin patted Ron on the shoulder, "I suggest that you consider becoming your eldest brother's colleague as the ultimate goal of studying at Hogwarts," he said seriously: "

This should be the most promising job for you."

Ron:???

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

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With Noble's current brain capacity, his IQ should be quite worrying, and he 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 for almost three days. I will leave Nob to you. Don't starve him." He warned with some worry.

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The opportunity has come.

Erwin was left alone in the camp, and Norbert was locked in a cage. He looked very agitated, tumbling back and forth, rattling the metal cage.

As Erwin approached, it immediately showed its fangs in a demonstrative manner, and its yellow-brown vertical pupils revealed a fierce light.

What a poorly raised dragon cub.

Erwin had a test tube in his hand. He stood not far from the cage and pulled out the stopper.

The breath of the fountain of power dissipated, and Norbert smelled it. Suddenly it seemed to be crazy, roaring, desperately trying to get out of the cage.

"Ha, you've tasted this stuff and fallen in love with it, right?" Erwin smiled coldly.

As soon as he thought, the latch on the cage door was pulled out. The free Norbert was stunned for a moment, and then rushed towards Erwin like a whirlwind, in a completely predatory posture.

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

The dragon cub howled and fluttered its limbs, but its body seemed to be nailed into the ground by an invisible spear, unable to move at all. It wanted to spray out flames, but immediately another invisible spear penetrated its upper jaw,

It can't even open its mouth and can only spray sparks from its nostrils.

Erwin squatted down and brought the test tube tip to the tip of Norbert's nose. He could smell the rich scent of the Fountain of Power, but he couldn't move forward, not even lick it, and could only whine.

Being able to smell but not eat is a huge mental torture for an animal with a weak mind.

After half an hour like this, Erwin retreated a little further and released the huge force exerted on Norbert.

It only took half a second for the young dragon to go from wilted to full-bodied. It rushed towards Erwin again, but was immediately pressed to the ground again and fell unconscious.

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

Noble frantically sprayed sparks from his nostrils.

After another half hour, Norbert was suddenly able to move again. Without any hesitation, it attacked Erwin, and then was imprisoned again. It stared at the human in front of it, its eyes full of hatred.

A dragon is indeed a dragon. That guy Sabi was completely submissive when he gave it a round like this, but Norbert is quite unruly, not just because of his nature or just because of his low IQ.

Erwin was not in a hurry. It was not difficult for him to suppress a young dragon that had just hatched from its shell at such a close distance, and he had plenty of time.

In the evening, the trio came over. "I'm here to help Nob exercise." Erwin told them.

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

"We have to be more careful and 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 night, Norbert refused to admit defeat. Every time he was briefly freed, he tried his best to attack the hateful human boy in front of him. But gradually, fatigue and hunger wrapped around his body, and his movements towards Erwin became increasingly difficult.

I have less and less strength.

It started to whimper. In the past, it had eaten two good meals in a row and rolled around comfortably in the cage. Now it was not only extremely hungry, but the hateful humans did not allow it to sleep.

Erwin cooked viscous chicken soup over the campfire in advance and added the tube of the Fountain of Power into it. Now that the chicken soup had solidified into aspic, he picked a piece and brought it to Norbert's mouth.

"Want to eat?"

Norbert whined pitifully.

Erwin once again released the force exerted on the young dragon, and Norbert suddenly stood up, opened his mouth and bit - not at the piece of jelly, but at Erwin's hand.

"Bang!"

A huge force suddenly emerged, and the young dragon's body was knocked away and rolled two or three times on the ground. Noble let out a cry of pain, and was immediately penetrated by the invisible spear of gravity again and nailed to the ground.

This time, its restraints were never lifted again, until after a day and a night, Norbert, who had neither eaten nor drank, was dizzy and so weak that his consciousness was somewhat blurred.

Erwin walked up to it and threw a piece of aspic in front of it. It was the same piece as before, covered with dirt and broken leaves.

When Norbert found that he could move again, he immediately opened his mouth, rolled out his tongue, and swallowed the piece of aspic whole. Then another piece of aspic was brought to him, and he ate it without hesitation.

The special substances in the jelly allowed it to regain some strength. Norbert stood up tremblingly and looked at the humans close at hand, with a trace of fear in its eyes.

It doesn't dare to attack anymore.

"Still want to eat?" Erwin raised his eyebrows.

Norbert called out timidly.

Piece by piece, Erwin fed the entire pot of jelly to the young dragon. After Norbert had eaten and drank enough, he stretched out his hand, intending to touch the young dragon's head, but there were several venomous stingers growing on it.

, so he changed the direction halfway and went to scratch Noble's chin.

The young dragon accepted the caress.

Erwin pushed it down with all his strength, and then began to rub its belly. Noble's body stiffened for a moment, but he remained obedient and did not dare to resist.

Very good. If you can show the most vulnerable belly, 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 make any noise or break up the house. He was petted and kissed. The only thing that made him a little unhappy was that the young dragon treated Erwin It seems a little too intimate.

This made Hagrid, as an orthodox "mother", feel a little sour inside.

There was nothing he could do. He had work to do, so he couldn't stay with Norbert all the time.

"Oh, by the way, Hagrid," Erwin said suddenly, "I discovered that Norbert is actually a girl."

There are physical differences between male and female dragons. Although it was not obvious when the dragon was a young dragon, now that Norbert has become a good baby, it is naturally easy to determine its gender.

"Girl?" Hagrid was stunned. He had never thought of this possibility.

However, it doesn’t seem to make any difference whether Norbert is male or female, which means the name is not suitable. “Since she is a little girl, she can no longer be called Norbert…”

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

"This name is too long and too difficult to pronounce." Hagrid shook his head and objected, "And the little guy should be used to the name Norbert. Let's just add an extra syllable at the end and call him Norbert."

Erwin agreed, and Hagrid would definitely have priority naming rights.

The domestication of Norbeta is still going on. It is not enough to just make it obey out of fear. Now is the second step. Erwin feeds Norbeta well every day, but strictly controls the feeding of the Fountain of Power. , only after Norbeta has fulfilled certain of his requirements, he will give a piece of aspic that hurts the fountain of power as a reward, such as shaking hands, rolling around, and scratching his belly. Norbeta is a quick learner.

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

So Norberta obediently became the subject of Erwin's research, including but not limited to having her body length and wingspan measured every day, having her mouth opened to study dragon teeth and fire-breathing glands, having her blood drawn, and removing some scales for material testing. , remove a stinger or two to test for toxicity, and even chrysanthemums and daily feces are observed.

Erwin recorded the changes in the baby dragon's body data every day and found that the Fountain of Power had a huge effect on its growth. By maintaining a regular intake every day, Norberta's physique was not only increasing, but also her magic power was increasing. The most intuitive manifestation of its steady growth is its dragon breath, which can now turn the area three meters in front of it into a sea of ​​fire.

This makes Erwin a little unbalanced. Why can I only have more magic power that can be used temporarily when I drink from the Fountain of Power? Ever since he knew that most wizards' magic power can only increase with age, Erwin has always had a feeling He was vaguely worried that although he had a rational mind and sufficient ambition, he would be shackled by insufficient magic power.

The most important factor that affects the upper limit of a wizard's magic power seems to be talent.

Flitwick said that Erwin already possesses fifth-grade magic power, but this is the result of his continuous training for the past ten years and does not prove how high his upper limit of magic power is.

And now, nearly a year later, Harry and the others can already use magic that they could not even imagine a year ago, but Erwin feels that his magic level has not improved much. If we use data to illustrate it visually, then

That is, Harry's magic power is twenty, and Erwin's is two hundred, but now it has been increased by fifteen points, which is almost doubled for Harry, while Erwin's magic power has hardly improved much.

The marginal effects are just too painful.

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

This was really unacceptable to him.

It would be great if I was also a dragon, he thought uncontrollably.