Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

[armadillof]

No: HPFGUIDX 90424


"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."


Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus can be interpreted as a 'rough' 
latin.  (Few exceptions such as nunquam=numquam; slight spelling 
modifications et al).  I interpret it generally as meaning "the 
snake never sleep peacefully". 
draco=snake
nunquam=never
dormiens=sleep
titillandus=peacefully