Never tickle a sleeping dragon WAS: Caput Draconis

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 84482

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

Berit:

<snipped>

> 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...

Geoff:
That's interesting. I hadn't noticed the use of "Dad" - it's right at 
the end of the line in my edition and I was following through the 
comment onto the next line. The strange thing is that he only does it 
once. He refers to "father" twice before in this scene. Curiously, 
just before DM's comment, Harry refers to "your dad" and I don't 
think (without ploughing through miles of canon) that he does that 
regularly.

Looking at it personally, I always called my father "father" and it 
was only very much towards the end of his life when he began to use 
the short form of my name(!) that I switched to Dad.

Something deeply psychological here. Pass Draco the nitroazepam 
somebody!