Most
of you must have noticed this happens to be the motto for Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. Most of you must have also found out what it means.
For those who didn’t, never mind. It means “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
Sounded
lame for a motto. A school motto is full of heavy thoughts like-. Actually
sounded so Dumbledorish to me.
One
day I was shopping when I saw a section full of zodiac sign t-shirts. I started
looking for my zodiac among the lot. I found it. Below the big bold ‘TAURUS’ it
said ‘Don’t mess with me.’ I have read before that Taureans are very soft and wouldn’t
harm you, not until you provoke them consistently. Once you invite their wrath,
that’s it.
One
thought led to another and God knows how this motto popped into my teeny little
brain. Suddenly it made a lot of sense to me. It was symbolic to the law of
nature which governs our universe. It meant never try to disrupt the balance of
nature or it will cause havoc.
If
you talk about the story*, it was the theme. Lord Voldemort goes against the
law and makes himself immortal. Of course he lives an unhappy, lonely life and
suffers too. Power hungry he was, never at peace with himself. After all his
efforts he does meet his end. Everyone must someday.
If
you go beyond the story, it is a lesson we always learn the hard way. As
children we eat so much of sweets, never listen to our parent causing regular
accidents and do so much to cause trouble. As teenagers no matter how much
people warn you, you go off partying with friends. Many indulge in all the bad
habits in the world. Some get into drugs and ruin their life. We always like
doing things which are dangerous because it sounds fun. At every stage of life
we do things we are better of not doing and suffer.
Go
further and you will see more to this phase. We have messed up with nature in
the name of development that now its taking its wrath on us. We have brought
down great forests, vanished hills, erect(don’t you go thinking something else)
long skyscrapers and made this world hostile to everything which can or cannot
breathe. Nature answered us with floods and draughts, earthquakes, global
warming and poisonous gases bringing our deaths nearer than it should have
been. This is what happens when you do tickle a sleeping dragon.
Whenever
I get a topic and time will come up with an article. If you would like me to
write about something please do comment. And I would love it if you gave your
reviews as well. Farewell till then. And a bit of advice- never tickle a
sleeping dragon.
