Chapter 64: The Dragon Industry Chain of the Wizarding World
"I- I know I can't keep it forever, but I can't just throw it away, I can't."
The aggrieved Hagrid crouched on the ground, crying like a big boy about to be thrown away by his parents, and the weight of the pressure made him collapse.
At this point, Harry suddenly turned to Ron.
"Charlie." He said.
"What are you fooling about," said Ron, "I'm Ron, not Charlie." ”
"No...... Charlie...... Your brother Charlie. I remember you said that he was studying fire dragons in Romania. We might as well give Noble to him. Charlie could take care of it and put it back into the wild. ”
"Great!" Ron said, "How's it going, Hagrid?" ”
Actually, this is not a good solution, but Hagrid remembers whether he eats or not, and obviously hesitates again.
"But Noble is so young, what if it doesn't like it? What if other dragons bully it there...... It's better to wait for it to grow a little longer. ”
"Hagrid," Harry and Ron continued to persuade when they saw that he had not refused, ready to strike while the iron was hot, "we can't wait any longer, it will be too late." Why don't we send a letter to Charlie and ask him about the situation over there? ”
Hagrid looked down at the little fire dragon and opened his mouth, unable to utter a word.
Facing the three people who were in a stalemate, Clark smiled and said, "I haven't finished what I just said." ”
When Clark spoke, the three turned their eyes to him, and Hagrid's eyes were full of anticipation and pleading.
"Of course it's illegal to keep dragons privately," Clark said word by word, looking at Hagrid, "unless, you're not raising dragons in the name of a private person." ”
"Not in the name of a private person?"
"Yes." Ignoring Hagrid's shock, Clark began to talk about the fruits of his busy time.
"As the second largest department of the Ministry of Magic, the Department of Magical Beasts Management is a very powerful department, in addition to containing dangerous magical animals in the wild that may threaten Muggle society, they are also responsible for combating the illegal resale of magical animals, protecting endangered magical animals, and even contacting intelligent magical animals is also within their purview."
Harry and Ron looked at him with a blank expression, not understanding what he was talking about, but Hermione listened with relish.
"All things related to dragons belong to the Office of Dangerous Animal Control and Management under the Department of Magical Beasts Management.
Although there are not many people in this group, they are responsible for tracking and monitoring wild dragons throughout the United Kingdom, supervising the dragon raw material trading market, formulating dragon-related laws and regulations, and reviewing and issuing dragon breeding licenses. ”
"In the UK, raising dragons is not a fun game, it is a big business that involves hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold gallons.
From healing potions, dragon manure fertilizer, and magic inks to wand cores and stove cleaners, every aspect of the wizarding world often requires parts from dragons. ”
"So you said you were going to send dragons to a dragon farm in Romania, and I didn't think it would be a good idea. Although those dragon farms will not do stupid things such as killing chickens and taking eggs, the dragons who stay there often face the dilemma of being put down to draw blood, and their old age is even more bleak. I've already asked my cousin Charlie about this. ”
The joys and sorrows of human beings may not be the same, but the cruelty of human beings must be extraordinarily similar. Even in two different worlds, wizards treat dragons in the same way that Muggles get foie gras and live bears get their bile.
In the final analysis, all social activities are nothing more than the distribution and reuse of natural resources.
And the development of the entire wizarding society can be said to be based on the white bones of magical beasts. The reason why wizards are indifferent to the Muggle world is not because the Muggle world rarely has the magical resources they need.
When Clark revealed to Harry the bloody scene behind the dragon chain, the dark side of these hidden beneath adult society made several young wizards shudder.
On the other hand, Hagrid, as an adult wizard who often goes to Tumbledown Alley to buy forbidden items, is no longer strange to these things. Even if he liked those big guys, it didn't stop him from purchasing a pair of dragon leather gloves.
So he was more concerned about the other part of Clark's words at this time.
"Dragon breeding license? Is this thing easy to get? He looked at Clark with a wistful look.
Facing Hagrid approaching, Clark couldn't help but lean back, and a half-giant close to five meters tall pressed his face to you, the pressure was still quite strong.
"It's not a good thing to handle, it's not like some of the small advertisements you see in the alleys for vocational skill certificates. They will assess the applicants: knowledge of dragon breeding and breeding, location and setting of dragon breeding sites, health conditions of dragon breeding rooms, personnel files of practitioners, and preventive measures for emergencies......"
Hagrid's eyes widened, as a student who had been expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, he really didn't understand the official rules.
"But even if you pass these assessments, there is another problem that cannot be avoided...... That's Albania! And Romania! ”
"The Ministry of Magic has to consider the diplomatic implications, and you must know that although the Ministry of Magic has opened up the license to keep dragons, there is not a large-scale, large-scale dragon breeding institution in the whole of the United Kingdom. Even some small dragon farms eventually had to be sold due to poor management. Therefore, 80% of the dragon alchemy materials in Britain have to rely on imports.
And the reason for all this is because of the resistance from Eastern European dragon breeding families such as Albania, they will not let others easily set foot in their own dragon breeding industry, that group of Eastern European wizarding families have teamed up, taking advantage of the first-mover advantage, forming an industrial monopoly, coupled with the support of big countries behind them, even the British Ministry of Magic is unwilling to offend them. ”
This is also why in the past half century or so, there have been fewer and fewer dragon breeders in the British wizarding world. Even in the last decade or so, due to the intervention of dragon breeding families in Eastern Europe, the British Ministry of Magic has not issued any more dragon breeding licenses. ”
Clark's words hit Hagrid's heart like a hammer, he was just a poor hunting ground guard, how could he get that so-called dragon breeding license under the target of those dragon breeding families?
"So what to do?" Hagrid's voice trembled.
But Hermione had extra confidence in Clark, she knew Clark, and if she wasn't completely sure, he wouldn't have said it.
Sure enough, Clark unhurriedly came up with his solution.