Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90431

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Sherrie:
> No, it's "Draco", and it does mean "dragon".  However, I don't think
> it's referring to Ferretboy.  I've always read it in a
> more...metaphorical way, as in "Don't play with what you don't
> understand."  But that's just me.
> 
> Or "Let sleeping dogs lie," especially if their name is Fluffy!
> Siriusly, er, seriously, I agree that it's metaphorical but have no
> idea who or what the sleeping dragon is.

Geoff:
I suspect that the saying will have been Hogwart's motto for a very 
long time - long before DM appears on the scene. It may be one of 
JKR's "coincidences" that it can be applied to our little friend...

As Sherrie says, it's much in the same category as "let sleeping dogs 
lie".

I was suddenly reminded that Bilbo invented a proverb in "The 
Hobbit" - "never laugh at live dragons" - after he got singed by 
Smaug!