Dragon Slayer's Academy 2: Revenge of the Dragon Lady by Kate McMullen

I admit it's not fair to compare every children's book set in a boarding school to Harry Potter, but that's the world we're living in. Thus here is Dragon Slayer's Academy, a chapter-book series set just where the title says it is. Wiglaf is the worst student at the school, which is a cross bewteen Grendel-era Nordic village life and Camelot-era England (which may not have been that far apart, historically speaking.) The parallels to Hogwarts are evident but not glaring. Wiglaf has two best friends: the Ron-Weasely-ish Angus and the Hermione Graingerish Erica (a girl pretending to be a boy, as girls are not enrolled at the Academy.) The difference is where Harry Potter swings wildly between whimsy and the maudlin, DSA is seriously silly. This is the second book of the series and picks up after the events of book 1, wherin Wiglaf killed the dragon Gorzil by telling it stupid jokes. Every dragon has a secret weakness, you see. And when Gorzil's mother, Seetha (th...