Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has bright, shiny scales and loves to play in the sunlight.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

After it became clear that Jamie would never mature mentally past the first hatchling stage, the other dragons helped to cast the spell that would forever lock him in that stage physically as well.