That Infamous Health-Class Talk... Hogwarts Style!

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 338

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Alicia/Sue Spinnet" wrote:

> I can *so* see this-- the boys in the fifth-year class are sent out 
> to play Quidditch while the girls are administered that infamous 
> contraception-and-womanhood talk.  I can't imagine Flitwick giving 
> that lecture, though-- but the thought of McGonagall teaching that 
> particular branch of magic to the girls brings tears to my eyes.

If there is a group lecture on the subject, Madam Pomfrey would 
give the lecture to the girls. Not as funny, but more effective. 
Altho' wizard folk may believe that a combination of gutter and 
library is the best way to learn about sex, with marginal 
intervention by house master or parent to make sure they know about 
contraceptives.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Madam Pomfrey gives a talk to the 
first-year girls soon after they arrive ... about menstruation, not 
about where babies come from. (The newspapers tell me that little 
girls nowdays reach menarche significantly before they turn 11, but 
that is one of the things that I trust their internal magic to keep 
the good old-fashioned way.) What do witches do? Magically suppress 
their periods, use magic never-leaking tampons (charmed against Toxic 
Shock Syndrom) and magic pain-killers? Does Pomfrey teach them to do 
their own moon-cycle Charms or do they troop to the Infirmary once a 
month?