Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

ghinghapuss rredordead at aol.com
Fri Feb 6 22:02:29 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90409

>  "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?

> Carol wrote:
> 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."


Mandy here:
I know this has been discussed at length before, but principally it 
is this:

It could either be connected to Harry being the sleeping Dragon and 
LV is doing the tickling,  LV being the sleeping Dragon and Harry 
doing the tickling or Draco being the sleeping dragon and Harry 
tickling him.

IMO, whatever the connection it has to involve the unification of 
the school by the Houses coming together.  

So, perhaps the school is the sleeping dragon, or has a dragon under 
it. In the Chamber of Secrets perhaps?  There is excitement on 
MuggleNet about the discovery of a new clue concerning the Chamber 
of Secrets. And JKR herself said she almost gave it all away in book 
2.  What if the monster is not the Basilisk (he was just a pet), but 
a Dragon? 

So if Hogwarts is a sleeping dragon, perhaps the unification  of the 
houses awakens it and creates a force that can banish the Army of 
Lord Voldemort.

OK now I'm just rambling.  More on this later after I thought it 
through.


Mandy





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