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Assuming my Latin dictionary is worth anything, I think "draconem dormientem nunquam titilla" would be more accurate. Ms. Rowling takes a few, shall we say, "liberties" w/ the Latin in her books.
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Word order determines emphasis, the endings of the word generally determine what part the word plays in the sentence.
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I don't really know about Latin word order, so I just used the order of the original. However, in languages w/ a high degree of inflection (like Latin), the word order can usually be pretty mixed up w/o changing the meaning of the sentence too much. In English (which has lost almost all its inflection), there's a big difference between saying "the dog ate the cat" or "the cat ate the dog". But a language like Latin would have endings on the words which would tell you which was the subject (the eater) and which was the object (the eaten).
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