There was a book in the Hogwarts library called Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit. It contained a great deal of detailed information and was far more useful than The Dragon Lover. Hagrid had borrowed it and used the methods recorded within to hatch Libeta, a rare Norwegian Ridgeback.
This was actually a tactic Voldemort used to extract information. You had to give people a little benefit before they would lower their guard.
While Severus appeared to be listening, Susanna was still chattering endlessly about the old Ministry of Magic in France.
Besides the Great Council, the Consul also had an executive council with twenty-nine members, usually chosen by him from the Great Council. Upon taking office, the Consul had to write a letter of commitment, surrendering his claim to all Ministry of Magic revenues apart from his quarterly salary and the tribute he received from the colonies of France.
Compared with maintaining public order, successive Consuls preferred wars and grand construction projects. Pierre, the first president of the International Confederation of Wizards, could no longer stand the sight of wizards hunting Trolls, so he proposed protecting Troll rights. The same applied to the conservation of Romanian dragons.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, nobles burned villagers' homes to prevent their opponents from collecting grain. People fled into the Alps to escape the ravages of war.
The money for grand construction projects did not come from ordinary people, but from the great nobles. Likewise, if a Consul intended to launch an expedition such as dragon hunting in Peru, he had to persuade members of the Great Council to donate, much as a king summoned the Estates-General to call upon everyone to pay taxes. Some well-off non-nobles hoping to enter the Great Council could take this opportunity to place their