Mottos

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20158

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., JamiDeise at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/3/2001 11:08:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a... writes:
> 
> << Slytherin:
>  Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane 
> mittam. (translated, I have a catapult - give me all your money or I'll fling 
> an enormous rock at hour head - again, Henry Beard)
>   >>
> 
> wouldn't Slytherin's motto be in Parseltongue?  hissssss hiss hisssssssss

Good idea - but I think none of _them_, masters or students, can speak
Parseltongue either.  Bit of a drawback, that.

Given Salazar Slytherin's troubled relationship with the school,
how about "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me
as a member"?  Bit long, though - still, they could inscribe it
lengthwise on their heraldic serpent.

There's a musical instrument called the serpent, but "The note
depends very much on the embouchure" is as near to there as I want
to go :-)  If that was their motto, it has the merit (as they might
see it) that when you find out what it means, it's too late.

Is there a wizarding version of "All your base are belong to us"?
Or, plain and simple - but subtle - "Break a leg".

"Snake eyes, you lose"?

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!