Another sleeping dragon?(Re: Never tickle a sleeping dragon )

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No: HPFGUIDX 84483

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

Now me:

 "Draco dormiens nunquam titilandus". By the way, Draco is not the 
only character we can tie up with the dragon. There's also his 
favourite teacher, Severus Snape. I remember that in Cos JKR wrote 
this:

"Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as 
safe as poking a SLEEPING DRAGON in the eye." (Bloomsbury, p 142).

It was in Book 2. In Book 4, we learned that dear Severus was 
formerly a Death Eater. We don't know how or why he decided to join 
Voldemort's gang. In Draco's case, the motivation is more 
obvious.                                                         
Will Draco follow the example of his teacher? He has a good reason: 
Harry is his father's 
enemy.                                                               
Or is Snape another "Draco dormiens", i.e, is he playing a double 
game?
Will he turn out to be "a Devil's Snape", working for Voldemort in 
order to corner Harry and hand him over to the Dark Lord? What a 
bastard he would be


Two knuts, amicalement,   

 
Iris