Mottos

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No: HPFGUIDX 20200

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> --- 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!

 How about "The end justifies the means." If Macheavelli had gone to 
Hogwarts he'd be a Slytherin.

 Jen