Never tickle a sleeping dragon

brooksindy brooksindy at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 23 12:25:00 UTC 2000


Original Yahoo! HPFG Header:
No: HPFGUIDX C7629
From: brooksindy
Subject: Re: Never tickle a sleeping dragon
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7621] Re: Never tickle a sleeping dragon
Date: 8/23/00 8:25 am  (ET)

>Jo said in an interview with Bloomsbury Publishing >that the school
motto is like the english
>saying: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.

Which is out of Shakespeare, IIRC.

> it's just a motto... which for some reason, was not
>transfered into the American editions of the books (not sure about
other language editions).

Because the US editions do not have the artwork of the school seal -
which makes it rather a puzzle that it was used on that Jeopardy show.






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