Never tickle a sleeping dragon WAS: Caput Draconis

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 84477

Geoff wrote:
 
> One might also start drawing hints from the Hogwarts motto: Draco 
> dormiens nunquam titillandus = "Never tickle a sleeping dragon".
> 
> OK - now who's going to translate that as "Never tickle a sleeping 
> Draco" and start a new Slytherin thread?
> :-)

Me:

I don't know if the topic is interesting enough to start a new 
thread, but I would like to comment on the very interesting question 
you raise about the Hogwarts motto. Because I have got a distinct 
impression that is actually what Harry did at the end of 
OoP, "tickled a sleeping Draco"... On pages 749-751 (British Version) 
Harry bumps into Draco in the Entrance Hall. To me this little 
incident describes a "new" Draco, a much more dangerous Draco. Up 
till now Draco has just been "having fun" acting out the bad kid. 
Harry landing his father in prison (and ridiculing him in front of 
Draco) has however turned him into a potential Death Eater. Just read 
those pages, and you see a Draco angrier than Harry had ever seen 
him, his pale face "contorted with rage". And his voice is quiet, 
whispering, no more of the loud, boisterous drawling. But the most 
significant sign of Draco's change of attitude is the way he talks 
about his father. In the previous books he has always referred to him 
using the more formal "Father", but now he even calls him "Dad". Now, 
that's significant if you ask me :-)

My two knuts: Harry's in deep trouble. Draco dormiens nunquam 
titillandus...

Berit