While the Ridgeback has green scales in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Newt Scamander wrote in his book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that the Ridgeback resembled the Hungarian Horntail except the ridge, with black/brownish scales.The reference to the Rhodesian Ridgeback hunting dog is especially fitting as this dragon caused so much trouble to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid, all of who were in Gryffindor House, which is represented by a lion.Additionally, Ridgeback is a British bicycle company. Two other breeds of ridgeback dog exist, the Thai Ridgeback, and the Phu Quoc Ridgeback. Norwegian Ridgeback is likely a play on Rhodesian Ridgeback, a South African hunting dog used, among other things, to hunt lions. Female Ridgebacks were generally more ferocious than the males. Its eggs were black, and young Ridgebacks developed the ability to shoot flame earlier than any other breeds (around one to three months). It had venomous fangs, and its food of choice was large mammals, including aquatic mammals, which was unusual for a dragon. It resembled the Hungarian Horntail, except for the black ridges on its back, the browner texture in its scales, and its less hostile attitude. Description and traits Ī Chocolate Frog Card of a Norwegian Ridgeback ĭuring the Calamity which affected the wizarding world during the 2010s, whirlwind Confoundables trapped baby Norwegian Ridgeback Foundables, for which members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force had to overpower with the spell Meteolojinx Recanto. ĭuring the 2008–2009 school year, Ivy Warrington, another student and a centaur battled a Norwegian Ridgeback in the Forbidden Forest. Charlie mentioned this during his brother's wedding, saying that she was too vicious to be a male.

īy 1997, it was discovered that Norbert was in fact a female dragon, so her name was changed to Norberta. However, the dragon was discovered, and eventually Hagrid gave Norbert to Charlie Weasley, who took the young dragon to live with others of its kind in the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary where he worked. After hatching the egg, Hagrid named the creature Norbert, and tried to raise it with the help of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. In 1991, Rubeus Hagrid received a Norwegian Ridgeback egg from a hooded stranger in a pub. In 1802, a Norwegian Ridgeback was reported to have carried off a Whale Calf off the coast of Norway.

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