One of my favorite things about the httyd books has to be how it instills this sense of wonder into the world. It tells you that there's this magnificent universe just outside your periphery, that if you look close enough, you will see dragons soaring through the sky as stars, scuttling through the grass as brief shadows, sleeping deep beneath the earth where no man has yet to touch. Things that's can't be proven true, but can't be proven untrue either.
The world of httyd dragon is fiction. I mean, dragons aren't real, no one has ever seen one. But then they put in the book that hiccup deliberately made it so that stories untruthfully sang of their non-existence, that no one has ever seen one because they are hiding.. And dragons are wonderful at hiding. That somewhere out there, they are there. That some time long past, there was a king and a hero. Somewhere out there, toothless is still sleeping. Someday, the world may be just as wonderful. There is only one way to reach this world, and it is to make the current one a better place.
It sounds a bit cheesy but isn't that such a wonderful message? That until the world becomes a place where creatures of any kind are no longer oppressed, where greed does not rot the mind, where the weak have a place in, where people lead with kindness just as hiccup did, then it cannot truly be wonderful.
There are no dragons, in this world. Maybe not in your entire lifetime and a dozen lifetimes after yours, but history is a succession of noble failures. Do not be afraid to fail, just as hiccup did, do not be afraid to care. Success may be improbable, but an effort made in the right direction is still a change towards a better world. Even in failure, there is hope. Until then, even if the world isn't wonderful just yet, if you look close enough, perhaps you can still see some of its wonders.