A little HP thing I just noticed...
I've been listening to Harry Potter books on tape ~~while I train up a new EV-trained Pokemon team~~ and I noticed something nifty in Chamber of Secrets that I had never noticed before. This is the only sane place I can think of where people might care that I frequent.

In the scene when Hermione needs to steal ingredients for Polyjuice, Harry has to distract Snape and it says it's like "poking a sleeping dragon in the eye". Has anyone written anything on the connection between that and the school saying, which roughly translates to "Never tickle a sleeping Dragon"?

Clearly someone will tickle Snape to death in DH, right?

It probably means nothing, but I thought it was nifty and I don't tend to frequent HP discussion comms, because hardcore shippers scare me, so I thought people here might be ~~as bored as I am~~ interested.

PS-No spoilers for DH in the comments, please.

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	anne_o_nymous 2007-07-13 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	Well, Draco's name means "dragon," so perhaps he will be the one tickled to death. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ryuutchi 2007-07-13 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know. I once had an English professor who insisted that Draco's name was referring to the Greek law scribe whose name we get "draconian" from, and not the animal. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anne_o_nymous 2007-07-13 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	Here's something wiki says about that Draco: His admirers "threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that selfsame theatre". So, Malfoy will be suffocated to death by a flood of fangirls' Hogwarts robes? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sashenka 2007-07-13 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe they will tickle each other... ew. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2007-07-13 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	Eh. Makes a change from "magically forced to have sex." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	deliciouschaos 2007-07-13 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	Well, there was that laughing curse. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	madelfdisease 2007-07-13 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	Isn't there a tickling curse too? Seriously? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-07-14 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, Rictusempra. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-07-14 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	I think Rowling said somewhere that there's not connection between Draco and the school motto. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-07-14 03:18 pm UTC (link)
	I've honestly got to say I doubt there's a connection... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sashenka 2007-07-14 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	No Snape tickling, you think? Pity. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wtf 2007-07-15 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	...your Zoidberg icon mesmerizes me. _ (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sashenka 2007-07-15 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	Sometimes after I comment, I watch it for a few seconds. (Reply to this)(Parent)