Never tickle a sleeping dragon WAS: Caput Draconis

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No: HPFGUIDX 84479

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> 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

Oh, I love that. I would really like to see more, dangerous and 
hateful situations between Harry and Draco in the next books (are 
there really only 2 more left? Can't believe it!)
The incident you describe above is one of the most tense encounters 
between the two of them yet - and this is also the first time (if I 
remember correctly) that Harry is the one to actually want the 
situation to develop.
Too bad Snape had to show up at the very moment Harry was ready to 
use his wand. I'd love to see what would have happened if there had 
been no interference from a teacher.

Inge