[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

[udder_pen_dragon]

No: HPFGUIDX 90410



justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
"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

Rincewind 

The first word of Hogwarts motto is DRAGO not DRACO as in Malfoy DRAGO means Dragon. AS far as I remember Draco was a Roman General, but It Does not mean Dragon.

Rincewind

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