Heraldry Class/Bad Amy! was Another motto question

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 21575

> Amy Z wrote:
> 
> > Now I have a motto question.  Who drew the crest?  JKR herself?  
The
> > book covers don't say.
> 
> Amy, for shame. You have sat through Amanda Binns' Lectures on 
Heraldry.
> Fifty points from your house. (1) This is not a motto question, it 
asks
> nothing about the motto. (2) :::more attentive students 
chorus:::"Nor is
> it a CREST. It is a coat of arms."

I humbly bash myself over the head with a saucepan for my 
inattentiveness in Heraldry.  Everyone has his/her zone-out class, 
even Hermione--I guess this one is mine.

However, the post WAS about the motto, albeit so badly written so that 
it is perfectly understandable that you might miss that fact.  If JKR 
didn't draw the COAT OF ARMS, did she invent the motto and tell it to 
the artist?  I.e., what I really want to know is:  is "Nunquam etc." 
canon or not?  This is a very important matter for the L.O.O.N. files.

Amy Z

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 If only the hat had mentioned a house 
 for people who felt a bit queasy, 
 that would have been the one for him.
     --HP and the Philosopher's Stone
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