Chapter Eighteen
Dangerous Dragons Delights
Hermione was able to catch up with Harry and Ron just outside the castle. Joining her friends they both looked at her with a smile.
"Bloody Hell Hermione you look good," Ron said flushing slightly, Harry agreed. Hermione just smiled and continued to walk with them to Hagrid's hut. The rest of the class arrived with them to look upon an awesome sight. Four dragons stood chained to the ground inside a fenced in area. Hagrid was leaning on the fence seemly unconcerned with the huge beast behind him.
"Good Day Class, as promised today we will be leaning about dragons. You can all move in a bit don't be shy," the class took a few steps forward not wanting to get too close, "If ye look behind me this first one is a Swedish Short-Snout, notice her silvery-blue skin. She comes from the mountains of northern Sweden. We don't be wanting to make her mad enough to spit fire but if ye did it would be brilliant blue."
"Next we got the Common Welsh Green. He lives in Wales up in the mountains. His fire breathing is not as dangerous as the others as he only shoots narrow jets of flame. It be easy to spot one of their eggs they are earthy brown speckled with green. These dragons primarily feed on sheep," Turning a bit to look over his shoulder he continues "Next is the Chinese Fireball or Lion-dragon. Her scarlet coloration and golden spikes around her face is her most prominent features. Her eggs are of similar color, vivid crimson speckled with gold. She comes from china, where there is a supple supply of her food, Pigs and Humans. She likes to cook them with her mushroom shaped plume of fire before she eats them." Everyone took a step back when they heard this. "Finally we have the Hungarian Horntail. He is one of the most dangerous dragons around, as Harry would know from his experience with one," Draco huffed just then as to say yeah right "Most people just can't see the beauty of his black scales, bronze horns, and spiked tail. If you can get past all that the yellow eyes with his vertical pupils will take your breath away. His extremely large flames will also draw your attention, reaching up to fifty feet in length. She lays eggs with super hard cement-colored shells. Her food sources are goats, sheep, and humans. Do any of ya got any questions?"
"Can we leave now?" Malfoy drawled
"As a matter of fact you can some other time we will go into more dragons but I think you all had enough excitement for one day, class dismissed."
Everyone wanted to get away from the dragons before they got hungry, and speaking of hungry it was about time for dinner so they all rushed to drop off their things in their rooms and head down to the great hall for dinner.