Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 19:41:08 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90400

 "sawsan_issa" wrote:
> This motto has always been funny to me. I thought it was supposed to
> be be funny until recently when I started to take everything in the HP
> series seriously. SO, does anyone think that this will have an
> important role in the book? Does anyone think that someone has been
> tickling a sleeping dragon, and that's the cause of all the meyhem and
> Lord Voldie, etc?
>

Well, a "sleeping" (formerly complacent) Draco has certainly been
stirred to active malice. Not that I think that's the meaning of the
motto, but "Draco" does mean "dragon."

Carol





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