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Hendrik · 10-13-2004, 05:23 PM

HM Hendrik opened the door to his classroom and made his way to the front of the room. He arranged his stack of papers on his desk and took a seat. Class would be starting in a minute. He waited for more students to show up.

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 10-14-2004, 05:19 PM

Nadia takes a look...

"Ugh," she exclaims. "This definitely isn't that pretty. Interesting, yes, but not pretty." *chuckles* "Wow, professor. I don't know where you find this images but they are great - look at this! How interesting, I never stopped to think the many muscles a dragon has... Probably that's why all of my drawings of Dragons aren't that neat."

Keeps checking it out, "Incredile, absolutely incredible..."

serenasnape · 10-14-2004, 05:20 PM

"Wow, Professor, that's amazing. Seeing the muscle structure makes it easy to see how strong and agile they really are!" said Serena.

Didymus · 10-14-2004, 05:20 PM

Didymus looked at the parchment.
"That's interesting. Professor, I'm guessing that the small amount of muscle near the top of the wing is what helps a dragon to spread its wings out fully."

shenanigan · 10-14-2004, 05:25 PM

"Wow," Shannon says again.

hippie69m · 10-14-2004, 05:27 PM

Hippie takes a parchment and looks at it. "That is cool."

Hendrik · 10-14-2004, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Didymus looked at the parchment.
"That's interesting. Professor, I'm guessing that the small amount of muscle near the top of the wing is what helps a dragon to spread its wings out fully."

"Yes, you are correct Didymus, now if everyone will touch their wand to the parchment again, you will see the 'final product'."

HM Hendrik waves his wand again and the blackboard reflects the parchments on the student's desks.

Blackboard

DracOFan04 · 10-14-2004, 06:41 PM

"Oh cool, I didn't know I could do that," said Dracofan from the other side of the room.

Backslash · 10-14-2004, 06:45 PM

Jaren studied the dragon's anatomy with great interest. The muscle structure was incredible--rather dense but lean enough so that the dragon could fly.

"Professor, given the dragon's weight, its wings would have to be very strong to support it, right? Given that, would its bones be hollow like a bird's--which would decrease its weight--or dense, which would make the bone stronger but add on weight?"

Leeness · 10-14-2004, 07:23 PM

Lee looked over at Backlash, amazed at what had just come out of their mouth, "wow"lee thought i should really study more.

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 10-14-2004, 07:30 PM

"Amazing," Nadia said. "By the color and brightness of it I'd risk it saying it's a Green Welsh Dragon. And Probably one Dragon to live in the forests, with Acid Breath. Am I right?"

Leeness · 10-14-2004, 07:39 PM

"You sound right to me Nadia" Lee smiled at her "is she right professor?", as Lee notes down the dragon along with the others that had been mentioned that lesson.

Greenwood Dancer · 10-14-2004, 08:36 PM

Rosalita looks at the parchment with interest. She jotted down notes, referring to the illustration frequently.

Reign · 10-14-2004, 09:25 PM

Reign looks at the diagrams amazed. "I wish I could see a real dragon, they're really cool"

angelwings · 10-14-2004, 09:48 PM

Eric nodded, agreeing with Nadia. "Yeah, it looks like a Common Welsh Green."

secret_garden32000 · 10-14-2004, 10:08 PM

Professor, I know this may sound, uh, wierd, but do you have perhaps a parchment of the organs of a dragon? I know that they would still have teh necessary organs, say teh circulatory, respiratory, digestive, etc. systems, but I would like to know how and which organ(s) make teh dragon spew fire, ice, acid, and other things.

*While he takes a while to write the notes, Chris thinks of another question*

Oh, and another question of mine is this: Seeing how they are reptilic animals, wouldn't dragons be cold-blooded, meaning they need their heat from the sun? Or would they be protected from the cold by magical means?

My last question is of a stupid background: Is it possible for Dragons to exist in space? I know it is a stupid question, but I have seen some pictures of dragons in space with the stars....

*Chris realizes that he probably just made a fool of himself, so he stops talking and looks at teh floor....*

kaZombie · 10-14-2004, 10:57 PM

kagome came along and sat down

Genie · 10-14-2004, 11:14 PM

::raises hand::

professor are these dragons the only dragons that exist: the antipodean opaleye from new zealand, the chinese fireball from china, the common welsh green from wales, the hebridean black from hebrides, the hungarian horntail from hungary, the norwegian ridgeback from norway, the peruvian vipertooth from peru, the romanian longhorn from romania, the swedish short-snout from sweden and the ukrainian ironbelly from the ukraine?

Mike_The_Mighty · 10-14-2004, 11:18 PM

Don't dragons have lungs which produce the fire and other stuff they can expel from their body. Or do they have glans that do that.
* Mike ask out of amazement that they were studiing dragons so early. *

singspell*!* · 10-15-2004, 11:15 AM

Singspell*!* sitting quietly in the back of the room. Raises hands and askes

"Professor when a dragon breaths fire... I have heard in some they may have two glands that contain two different chemicals. Alone they would not be of any real danger but when they mix, is what makes the fire.

So not really coming out of the lungs but the glands and mixing in midair so to not burn the dragon?

I remember reading that over the holidays and was wondering about it?"

sing reaches for her quill and finishes up her notes and waits for reply....

Hendrik · 10-15-2004, 01:25 PM

"Everyone of you have very good questions, most of which I will cover over the next few lessons. There is too much information on dragons to cover it all in just one lesson. Please, if I do not answer your specific question, ask again later but for now, I would like to talk about the history of dragons. I plan on covering dragon's flight, ability to breath fire, acid, and ice, and a few other things. Now, I believe Chris was asking about the internal organs? Hmmmm...let's see..." he shuffled through his papers, "I don't seem to have a diagram of the internal organs with me but perhaps I could put my hands on something for you by our next lesson.

When most people think dragon they most likely think of the Western dragon. Western dragons are usually portrayed as evil, mean, and bloodthirsty. They were also thought to have huge hoards of gold and jewels hidden in their lairs. This is a Muggle myth.

Some Muggle stories have the western dragon as the Devil in Christianity. Other stories in legend say that eating a dragons' heart will give the consumer the power of understanding birds, eating the dragons' tongue enables the person to win any argument, and rubbing the dragons' blood on skin will protect against stab wounds. Obviously none of this is true and have been created by Muggles in an attempt to explain something they do not understan. The near tragic end of the dragon came with Christianity, when knights that were eager to prove their faith. The knights quickly discovered that dragon-hunting was very profitable, and soon most the dragons in the world were destroyed in a very short time. Though their numbers are low, dragons are by no means extinct.

Now, each country is in charge of keeping their dragon populations in check with Anti-Muggle charms and preservations for each species.

Western dragons are generally thick, long bodied, scaly skin, four strong legs, two bat-like wings, wedge-shaped heads, and long necks. They usually are portrayed as breathing fire. Some breeds of these dragons have been known to be shape changers, and others have the chameleon power to change color of their background. They are sometimes displayed as having a spade or spiked tail. They eat but once a month on a sheep or ox, or even a human. They can be any color, or many colors, depending on the breed of the dragon."

shenanigan · 10-15-2004, 01:37 PM

Shannon frantically writes everything in her notes, hoping she didn't miss anything.

Hendrik · 10-15-2004, 01:39 PM

"There are three species of Eastern dragons, all looking very similar, but come from different parts of the world. They all have sinuous serpentine bodies, have four legs, they do not usually breath fire, usually shown not to have wings, but some are illustrated to have them. The Eastern dragons are said to be made up of many different types of animals of the Earth: the body of a snake, scales of a carp (fish), head of a camel, horns of a giant stag (deer), the eyes of a hare (rabbit), ears like a bull, a neck like an inguana, belly of a frog, paws like a tigers, and claws like an eagle. Most of the time they are shown to have a lion-type mane around its neck, on its chin, and on each elbow. They have two antler-type horns decorating their wide-mouthed head, and two long "feeler" whiskers spreading out from their snout. Eastern dragons have 117 scales, 81 infused with yang, the good, and 36 infused with yin, the bad. This evens out the dragons temper and personality.

There are three families of Eastern dragons: 3 toed, 4 toed, and 5 toed. Three toed dragons are Japanese. Four toed dragons are Indonesian or Korean. Five toed dragons are Chinese. They are shown in the colors blue, black, white, red, or yellow. Oriental dragons are usually shown with a pearl in their mouth, under their chin, or in their claws. This is apparently where the dragon gets its power, and how it ascends to heaven.

In China dragons are known as Lung. There are four main kinds of Lung: Tien-lung , The Celestial Dragon: who protect the places of the Gods, Shen-Lung, The Spiritual Dragon: who control the wind and the rain, Ti-Lung , The Earth Dragon which control rivers, and water on the Earth, and Fut's-Lung , The Underworld Dragon which guards precious metals and gems. Separate dragons control the rivers of the North, South, East and West. The commander of all the River Dragons is Great Chien-Tang who is blood red, has a firey mane, and is said to be 900 feet long though this has not been confirmed.

Eastern dragons are portrayed as good, kind, and intelligent. Oriental Dragons have the most recorded history in the world, especially in China going back thousands of years. In history they have a very close link to the weather. It is said that some of the worst flooding in Asia's History were caused when a Muggle has upset a dragon. In Chinese history, the 5 toed dragon is the symbol of power, and are considered "Imperial Dragons". Long ago, it became law in China that only the Emperor could have a five-clawed dragon displayed on his robes or illustrated on anything the Emperor owned. It was usually a Yellow dragon, thought to be the most superior of all the colored dragons. If someone other than the Emperor was caught wearing the symbol of the 5-toed dragon, he was put to death."

HM Hendrik paued for a moment, while the students took notes...

shenanigan · 10-15-2004, 01:46 PM

Shannon's hand is starting to hurt from writing so much, but she knows if she misses anything, that will be the thing that the homework will be on...It always happens, she thinks to herself.