Dragon Eggs

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Dragon eggs are a Class A Non-Tradeable Good, because dragons are so dangerous (and difficult to hide). The egg shells of the Chinese Fireball are used in Chinese wizardry (FBAZ). It says in Dragon-Breeding for Pleasure and Profit that nesting dragon mothers warm their eggs with their fire breath (PS14). The mothers guard their eggs fiercely (GF20).

The ten dragon breeds all have different eggs. Those of the Antipodean Opaleye are pale grey; Muggles mistake them for fossiles at times. The Chinese Fireball has vivid crimson eggs speckled with gold, while those of the Common Welsh Green are of a less spectacular earthy brown flecked with green. Hungarian Horntail eggs are cement-coloured and so hard that the young have to club their way out with their spiked tails. The Norwegian Ridgeback lays black eggs. The looks of Hebridean Black, Peruvian Vipertooth, Romanian Longhorn, Swedish Short-Snout, and Ukranian Ironbelly eggs are unknown (FBAZ).

Hagrid illegally acquires a dragon egg from a stranger (who is really Quirinus Quirrell in disguise) in the Hog's Head in 1992. He keeps the egg in his fireplace. Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback hatches from this egg (PS14).

During the Triwizard Tournament of 1994, four nesting mother dragons and their eggs are brought to Hogwarts for the first task. The champions each have to get past a dragon to fetch the golden egg that has been placed in the nest with the other eggs (GF20).