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Chinese Fireball
Oh, fuck yeah!!
Sometimes known as the “Liondragon,” this is the only dragon native to the Far East. It gets its name, obviously, from its flames, which are shaped like mushrooms. Its eggs are red and gold, and greatly prized by Chinese wizards.
This dragon is “aggressive but more tolerant of its own species than most dragons.” I’m not quite sure what that means, but whatever. I have a sneaking suspicion that “aggressive” means, “dangerous to humans,” because as we all know, humans, namely, magical humans are more important than anything.
Okay, now I’m imagining a biker gang of Chinese dragons. Or maybe something like Team Magma of Pokemon fame, who were intensely loyal to one another but all fairly dickish toward the heroes (except the leader himself, though even then...).
Chinese dragons prefer to eat pigs and humans, though they aren’t choosy. This is a point that will recur several times over the course of the book, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it: why do so many magical creatures actively prefer to eat humans? Because this comes up again and again- it’s one thing to consider humans fair game (assorted real-world carnivores do that) but quite another to prefer to eat them, which almost never happens in the real world. So why do all the magical creatures enjoy eating humans so much?
Especially considering in China dragons are frequently considered good and wise. Fortunately Rowling did not feel the need to comment on this.
A Chinese Fireball was one of the dragons that appeared in the Triwizard Tournament in Book Four, where Viktor Krum injured her so badly that she destroyed half of her own eggs thrashing about in pain. Um... remind me again whether it’s magical or nonmagic people who need to be taught how to respect animals?
*Sigh* I love Chinese dragons. They are so cool. <3
Chinese Fireball
Oh, fuck yeah!!
Sometimes known as the “Liondragon,” this is the only dragon native to the Far East. It gets its name, obviously, from its flames, which are shaped like mushrooms. Its eggs are red and gold, and greatly prized by Chinese wizards.
This dragon is “aggressive but more tolerant of its own species than most dragons.” I’m not quite sure what that means, but whatever. I have a sneaking suspicion that “aggressive” means, “dangerous to humans,” because as we all know, humans, namely, magical humans are more important than anything.
Okay, now I’m imagining a biker gang of Chinese dragons. Or maybe something like Team Magma of Pokemon fame, who were intensely loyal to one another but all fairly dickish toward the heroes (except the leader himself, though even then...).
Chinese dragons prefer to eat pigs and humans, though they aren’t choosy. This is a point that will recur several times over the course of the book, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it: why do so many magical creatures actively prefer to eat humans? Because this comes up again and again- it’s one thing to consider humans fair game (assorted real-world carnivores do that) but quite another to prefer to eat them, which almost never happens in the real world. So why do all the magical creatures enjoy eating humans so much?
Especially considering in China dragons are frequently considered good and wise. Fortunately Rowling did not feel the need to comment on this.
A Chinese Fireball was one of the dragons that appeared in the Triwizard Tournament in Book Four, where Viktor Krum injured her so badly that she destroyed half of her own eggs thrashing about in pain. Um... remind me again whether it’s magical or nonmagic people who need to be taught how to respect animals?
*Sigh* I love Chinese dragons. They are so cool. <3
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Date: 2020-10-17 07:50 pm (UTC)In Nisi Shawl's short story "The Pragmatical Princess," the dragon explains that eating too many humans is unhealthy for him because we are all so salty. Presumably this is due to our diets? And if medieval humans were too salty, imagine what modern humans gorging on mountains of salty, fatty convenience foods must be like!
Dragons eating humans because we are the equivalent of pork rinds is at least as good an explanation as anything Rowling might give us.