In the Slytherin common room, all the students looked curiously at Asterion's dragon egg. After all, it wasn't every day that someone got to see dragon eggs in person. They were forbidden items to trade, and it was a serious crime, worthy of Azkaban, to be caught with a dragon egg in one's possession.
"How do we hatch them?" Theodore asked, touching the surface of the egg with his fingers; it felt warm, but not so warm as to hurt.
"Heat, lots of heat." Draco and Dorea spoke at the same time, their eyes fixed on the dragon egg on the pillow. For them, there was nothing more beautiful than that egg right now.
"How hot are we talking?" Blaise frowned and asked with a curious tone.
"Enough heat to turn a volcano into a small phosphorus." Asterion replied and closed the book. On the cover of the book, the title clearly explained what was written on the pages of the book.
[Dragons and Their Curiosities by Newt Scamander].
"How can dragons generate so much heat?" Theodore's eyes widened as he listened to Asterion's words. What is the concept of such great heat? You could say that a person, witch or not, would be reduced to ashes.
"When dragons lay their eggs, their bodies produce a highly potent and volatile magical substance. Female dragons use this substance as a fire breath and throw it at the eggs, allowing them to absorb the fire so that the young can gain the strength to break free from the eggs and be born." Asterion looked at his dragon egg and answered nonchalantly. His eyes twinkled a little. His magical researcher side thought of countless possibilities
Is it possible to mix negative magic energy and magic energy? What would that do to the physically strongest race in the world? Would it still be a dragon or a variation of the race? The temperament would certainly be very volatile, tending toward cruelty and extreme irritation.
Asterion assumed that the most logical thing to do would be to kill the egg. Causing a magical mutation wasn't so easy. The death of the egg was the most likely outcome, especially in the first experiment.
Not that it was really surprising, he was talking about changing the DNA structure of a being.
A race that was born this way. Elder dragons didn't evolve, they were born, though the circumstances of their birth were still debated in the wizarding world.
Modern dragons were nothing more than a species degraded by interbreeding with other races. Not surprisingly, dragons were very sexually active. And they didn't discriminate against any race, as long as there was a hole, they could be attracted...
Maybe that was one of the reasons for all the hatred?
Shaking his head, Asterion put these strange thoughts aside and concentrated on the dragon egg.
"The captain of the Russian team will have the advantage in this first phase. Do you want to sabotage him?" Blaise commented with a cold smile on his face. The rest of Slytherin smiled coldly as well. They all looked like villains, some even laughing cartoonishly.
Asterion rolled his eyes at his obvious animation. "You can do whatever you want, but if you manage to get into the room of the Russian Minister of Magic, a Special Grade wizard, I'll take my hat off to you."
His words were like a bucket of cold water being thrown at them. Everyone had forgotten this fact, Alexei was the son of the Russian Minister of Magic, who was a special grade wizard, trying to sabotage him was not so easy.
"I refuse to believe he won't leave his room this week." Blaise spoke in a skeptical tone. The tournament gave them one week to hatch the dragon eggs; if they didn't succeed, they would be automatically disqualified from the second round and the entire team's grade would be lowered.
"Even if we can't sabotage the Russian team, the other teams are still easy targets. After all, accidents happen, and the stairs at Hogwarts are very treacherous." Astoria, Daphne's sister, commented with an innocent smile on her lips.
Gina looked at her friend speechlessly, but didn't say anything against the proposal, she wanted to get along with everyone and couldn't just be against it, besides they weren't going to kill anyone. She hoped so...
Draco felt a shiver run through his body as he heard his fiancée's words and he laughed dryly with a touch of fear. The ease with which she spoke made the boy worry a little about his married life. Would he survive if she became angry?
"Nothing too drastic like murder, but otherwise you can do as you please." Asterion sternly warned the Slytherin students. He knew that if there were no limits, murder could happen. He had no doubt of it. In the end, victory was what mattered, not how it was won.
"We need access to the Hogwarts kitchen, I think Cedric can help us with that." Dorea smiled coldly, a sadistic expression on her face.
"Poison." Tracey muttered after hearing Dorea's suggestion, she looked at her fellow house members and spoke with an excited tone. "Very laxative, let's show these foreigners how good Hogwarts' plumbing is!!!"
"Hogwarts!!!"
"Hogwarts!!!"
"Hogwarts!!!"
Seeing everyone excitedly conspiring in various ways, such as poison, accidents, and even traps, Asterion felt a little sorry for the foreign students.
They were on hostile ground, while the Hogwarts students knew all the corridors, staircases and secret passages of Hogwarts by heart.
It wasn't a fair competition at all.
"By the way, everyone who goes out has to be accompanied, we don't want to be ambushed and have the common room invaded by others!" Tracey spoke with a serious expression, looking like a general ready to defend and attack in a war. "Should we change the password?" Dorea frowned and suggested with a hint of hesitation in her voice.
"Change a password that lasts half a millennium?" Blaise commented with half closed eyes. "I'm not going to be the one to end the tradition."
After some thought, everyone agreed not to change the password; no one wanted to be remembered for changing a historic password that had lasted five hundred years.
After a while, everyone spread out in the common room; everyone seemed excited to be participating in the tournament, even if indirectly.
Asterion and Daphne were left alone, both looking at each other and seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes. Both could already imagine that Hogwarts would become a battlefield, one sabotaging the other.
Asterion sat down on the sofa and Daphne joined him, both looking relaxed.
Looking at Asterion holding the dragon egg, Daphne asked in a soft tone. She approached him and kissed him tenderly on the cheek. "When will you hatch it?"
Others might have the chance to never hatch dragon eggs, but Asterion wasn't on that list. If a Especial Grade wizard couldn't hatch a dragon egg, he would become an international joke.
Asterion thought for a moment while his face was covered in kisses. He could see that Daphne was excited, and so was he, they were both teenagers and couldn't wait to deepen their relationship.
Frankly, he figured that if he waited any longer, Daphne would probably pounce on him in the middle of the night and consummate the marriage without any hesitation on her part.
"Soon, but we have something more important to do." Asterion commented calmly, placing his hand on his fiancée's thigh.
This made Daphne's eyes sparkle with a hint of excitement. A feeling of sweetness seemed to envelop her at that moment. Asterion had delayed his business for her, which made her happy.
Then, under her surprised eyes, she saw Asterion pull out small tickets attached to a silver chain, all white with nothing written on them.
"Write whatever you want on them and I will do whatever is written on them without hesitation." Asterion spoke with an amused tone, he looked into her atonal eyes and couldn't help but think that Daphne was incredibly cute.
"Is that true?" Daphne stared at the pile of blank tickets and looked at Asterion in surprise.
"Can I write something?" She asked, her eyes shining brighter than diamonds.
"Yes. I'll accept anything written on the tickets." Asterion nodded and spoke reassuringly, a smile playing on his lips.
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Next Chapter Second Volume: Chapter 188 - Asterion & Daphne (R-18), Chapter 189 - Asterion & Daphne, Chapter 190 - How to Train Your Dragon (1), Chapter 191 - How to Train Your Dragon (2), Chapter 192 - How to Train Your Dragon (3), Chapter 193 - How to Train Your Dragon (4), Chapter 194 - How to Train Your Dragon (5), Chapter 195 - Dragon Race (1), Chapter 196 - Dragon Race (2), Chapter 197 - Dragon Race (3), Chapter 198 - Dragon Race (4), Chapter 199 - Dragon Race (5), Chapter 200 - Dragon Race (6), Chapter 201 - Dragon Race (7), Chapter 202 - Dragon Race (8), Chapter 203 - Golden Path (1), Chapter 204 - Golden Path (2).