Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

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.

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